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I have also referred to this as a proof that the great glacial 
movement originated beyond Nova Scotia, and that the coast of 
Section II was one of its termini. 
My study of glacial accumulations during the past decade has 
led me to recognize distinctions in the drift accumulations of this 
county which I failed to recognize in 1875. 
When describing Section III above, I indicated a distine- 
tion between the drift of the shore at Malignant Cove and the 
glacial drift. I connect with this other accumulations to which I 
referred at the time referred to (1875): “The great drift deposits, 
which occur in every direction, obscuring the adjacent rocks and 
rendering the work of exploration often difficult and perplexing. 
The more prominent are the accumulations on the hills that 
occur in the break that separates the ‘Archean’ from the Mc- 
Neil’s Mountain Archean. About one mile from the shore there 
are gravelly and sandy mounds; gradually they increase in size 
and numbers until, at a farther distance of two miles, the last of 
the series forms the elevated site of St. Mary’s Chapel, which is 
seen at a distance of several miles. In and around the town of 
Antigonish are similar elevations. My attention was specially 
directed to these about 20 years ago by the sinking of a well on 
the side of one on which the ‘Old Court House’ then stood. 
After passing through several feet of gravel a bed of clay was 
struck, which was particularly dry. It was first dark and then 
light in colour, containing fossil wood, in the centre of which was 
phosphate of iron of a beautiful blue colour, which might be 
used as a paint. This is noticed in ‘How’s Mineralogy of Nova 
Scotia.’ In a section of clays on the side of a small brook, not 
far from the railway station, I found the same fossil without the 
phosphate of iron. The fossil was abundant.” 
These are supposed to be aqueous deposits of Pleistocene age. 
(Champlain.) Illustrated by a Geological Map of the County.— 
Scale, one mile one inch.—MUSEUM COLLECTIONS. 
