292 RECORDS OF POST-TRIASSIC CHANGES 
From the top of the divide, which is near the edge of the- 
escarpment, the surface slopes away to the north-west at angles 
of from eight to ten degrees. This is about the inclination of 
the beds of trap rock, and the present surface therefore corres- 
ponds in general inclination with the original surface of the 
formation, This ridge is cut by transverse valleys, the bottoms 
occupied by small brooks which seem altogether too small to 
have excavated the trenches they now occupy. A bank of 
boulder clay containing glaciated pebbles was seen resting in 
the bottom of a ravine on the floor of trap rock over which one 
of the larger brooks is now flowing. If these depressions were 
filled with the boulder clay of the Glacial period, the work since 
that time has been wholly expended in clearing out their ancient 
channels and the brooks have but just begun to renew their 
excavation on the Trap rock. 
The four miles of coast examined form the south-east shore 
of Scot’s Bay, and from Ira Woodworth Bay, Cape Split, the 
terminating point of the huge wall of rock forming the opposite 
side of Scot’s Bay, bears nearly north. At this point the shore 
swings from south-west to about west-south-west which is the 
ceneral trend of the coast for some sixty or seventy miles. With 
the exception of the Amygdaloidal character of the Trap, the 
shore below high water mark is not unlike many other portions 
of this Bay of Fundy coast. Beachy coves are more common 
because of the relatively sheltered position, but between these 
the black rough rocks slope seaward in sheets and reefs with 
very few outlying rocks and ledges. The sea at high tide washes 
the bases of a line of low cliffs some twenty to forty feet high, 
except in the deeper coves, where a narrow strip of gravel beach 
is left uncovered by all but the highest tides. Several brooks 
empty in small coves within the area examined and in their 
beds the extent of the shore formations landward can be 
traced. 
