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spruce and fruit-bearing bushes interspersed with the rank 

 herbage wh'ch flourishes in the great wastes of marshland. 



The district possesses a most remarkable diversity of scenery. 

 Its most striking feature is the grand escarpment of the plateau, 

 rising from sea and plain in lofty mural and castellated clifls, 

 majestic talus-slopes and precipitous and craggy acclivities. 

 Its coast-line scalloped into long and grateful curves, presents, 

 especiall}^ the northern part, a succession of bold headlands and 

 picturesque bays and coves. Along its shores may be seen an 

 endless array of strange, fantastic and beautiful forms carved 

 by the sea out of its many-hued rocks. From the higher 

 summits of the region, glorious panoramic views are unfolded 

 of plain and plateau. Looking towavds the former, spread out 

 like a map at our feet, we see sparkling streams winding across 

 it to the sea, and over its surface dark copses of fir alternating 

 with bright green patches of cleared land. Turning towards 

 the plateau, stretching as far as the eye can reach we see a great 

 wilderness of pristine forest, moreland and rock. Here and 

 there its surface is seen cut into lab3a-inths of gorges and chasms 

 with foaming torrents, tumbling cascades and deep secluded 

 salmon and trout pools. 



GENERAL GEOLOGY. 



The relationship of the rocks to the forms of the surface 

 can only be briefly referred to in this paper. 



The trend of the coast-line and that of the undulations of 

 the plain, the course of the escarpment, the position, size and 

 shape of the harbor and the island, have all been largely 

 determined by the strike and the nature of the underlying rocks. 

 The law of the survival of the strongest and fittest holds good 

 in physiography as in biology. The softer rocks have suffered 

 the most from erosive agents and left the harder as the salient 

 features of the district. The granitic rocks which constitute 

 the front of the plateau have acted as protecting barriers to the 

 softer schists which lie beyond them, and have determined the 

 trend and retarded the recession of the escarpment. 



