170 GLACIAL SUCCESSION IN CENTRAL LUNENBURG—PREST. 
7. Recent subsidence of our southern coast, as our buried 
forests and peat bogs indicate. 
As is well-known, the study of glacial geology is of vast 
importance to the future of gold mining in Nova Scotia, and the 
discovery of important lodes are even now depending on a true 
explanation of the mysteries which surround the deposition and 
distribution of those deposits. What makes the matter very 
intricate, is that each district has been subject to local as well as 
general influences, thus necessitating a thorough local investiga- 
tion before any trustworthy conclusion can be arrived at. 
Neglect of such a thorough investigation has been the chief 
cause of the many failures in the search for gold-bearing veins 
in Nova Scotia. But the days are fast going by when the 
working miner looked with supreme contempt on the study of 
geology as the hobby of a few students and men of leisure. It 
has been said that the science of the past will be the common- 
sense of the future, and the writer can make no apology for 
this article other than that he is contributing his feeble efforts 
to bring about this much-desired end. 
