AS A TRANSPORTING AGENT.—PREST. 457 
In reference to erosion by drift ice—noticed in my former 
paper—an exact counterpart of the peculiar markings and 
furrows seen in Labrador is to be seen in the Mount Uniacke 
gold district, Nova Scotia. There, about three-quarters of a 
mile east of the 30-stamp mill, on several large exposures of 
quartzite, are seen hundreds of the curved furrows and scratches 
vossible only with the irregular movements of storm-tussed 
boulders. These scratched surfaces incline slightly toward a 
shallow valley to the northwest, and show on that side the 
strongest evidences of ice action. Some of the more protected 
portions show evidences of earlier glacial action, the striations 
varying from 8. 8° to 8. 16° E. 
In concluding these notes, I can only reiterate my opinioris 
of a year agc :—Ist, that the drift ice from the Arctic performs 
but an extremely infinitesimal part in the building of the accu- 
mulation known as the Banks of Newfoundland; 2nd, that 
these banks had their origin in Pleistocene times, and are simply 
glacial debris worked over by the sea; 3rd, that their terrestrial 
equivalents can be traced in the broad belt of morraines, kames, 
dunes, and other modified deposits which reach in a huge, 
irregular curve from Nova Scotia and the southern part of the 
New England States to the prairies of the Canadian Northwest, 
Proc. & TRANS. N. S. Inst. Scr., Vor. X TRANS,— FF, 
