260 NOTES ON GLACIAL ACTION—HONEYMAN. 
Post PLIOCENE. 
“T have already in passing referred to a deep cutting 
on the north side of the new bridge of the Nepisiguit. This 
is in the deep drift overlying the granite. That this is glacial 
dritt is evident from the great coarseness vf the material, the 
massiveness of the enclosed boulders, the want of stratification 
and the absence of marine relics (fossils.) 
I also noticed the first cutting across the Teteagauche. 
This is of a different character from the preceding. The 
material here is stratified. It is of marine origin. The abund- 
ance of shells to be found in the beds unmistakably indicate the 
origin of the deposits. The Rey. C. H. Paisley, of Bathurst, has 
described the various beds as they appeared when the cutting 
was fresh, giving the measurements and characteristié® of each,” 
At Jacquet River were found euttings in the Intercolonial 
Railway, having the same fossils as at Teteagauche. Here was 
found embedded a skeleton of a Beluga. The greater part of 
this is in the Provincial Museum. It was described by Dr. 
Gilpin in a paper communicated to the Institute. Trans. vol. 
iil. page 400. 
At the Fisheries Exhibition of London, 1883, I exhibited char- 
acteristic portions of this skeleton with associated shells. This 
was considered as interesting in connection with the exhibition 
of the white whale (Beluga) from River St. Lawrence. The two 
exhibits showed that the Beluga frequented this river from the 
Champlain period to the present time. 
Our observations on the Mollusca of Halifax Harbour seem to 
show that the mollusea of the present period of Halifax are 
essentially the same as the Postpliocene Mollusca of the north- 
ern part of New Brunswick, and also of eastern Canada. 
The glacial drift of the LC.R. and the Teteagauche and Jacquet 
river beds at Nepisiguit River, lies between our two glacial 
parallels—Chart of Glacial Problem—or in an intermediate paral- 
lel drawn from Beaver Harbour, which lies 58 miles east of 
Halifax Harbour. 
