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been enormous and may account to a great extent for the 
diminished height of the Island. At the same time I think we 
are justified in concluding, that while the Island has traversed 
a certain portion of this distance, its changed position as here 
indicated by those admiralty surveys, is mostly due to submer- 
gence. 
Of course an Island so constituted, exposed to the unobstructed 
violence of the whole Atlantic, could not long resist the terrible 
abrading force of the breakers, aided by swift currents, and the 
denuding effects of wind and rain. 
Already we have seen that within a comparatively short space 
of time, dating back but a few years previous to the founding of 
the life saving station, it has decreased in length from 40 miles 
to 22; in breadth from 24 miles to something less than 1 mile ; 
in height from 200 feet given in 1808 to 80 feet, according 
to the latest observations. 
The future of this Island to the navigator is everything but 
cheering. Should those destructive forces now in operation 
continue, we might easily calculate on a period, and not a remote 
one, when the sea will claim it as its own. 
Art, VI.—GtLactaL ACTION, AT RrmousKI, CANADA, AND LOCH 
Eck, ARGYLESHIRE, SCOTLAND. By Rev. D. HoNneEy- 
MAN, D.C. L, F. 8S. A, &e, Curator of Provincial 
Museum. 
(Read. 10th March 1884.) 
ON the 8rd of last November I made an observation near the 
I. C. R. Station at Rimouski, which I regard as interesting. On 
both sides of the Road I found and examined boulders, many of 
which were of large size; one had been blasted to make way for a 
fence. Others were evidently undisturbed, being, doubtless, in the 
positions in which they had been deposited during the glacial 
epoch. They are of crystalline rocks, of the Archzean (Lauren- 
tian,) formation. There are no exposures of rocks in the vicinity. 
