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<\e.i Chaleuvrf and the o.^tuarv of the Restigonche have been large- 

 ly invaded by intrusive mas.^es which have had a marked in- 

 fluence on the topography and .agricultural character of the re- 

 gion. 



8. 



SURFACE GKOLOGV. 



Dr. Gesner, who first made a cursory examinati<ui of the sur- 

 face deposits of the province, collected a number of fossils from 

 the clays and sands of the Bale de? Chaleurs district. At that time 

 they were classified as Tertiary deposits. He also came to the 

 conclusion that during the existence of the testacea, whose shells 

 are entombed in the clay beds, the coast border stood lower than 

 at present, and that an u[)heaval followed. Little was known of 

 the fauna of the Pleistocene, however, until the construction of 

 the Intercolonial railway was undertaken, when a great number 

 of clay banks and terraces were opened by cuttings, disclosing 

 an ibundant series of fossils. Rev. C. H. Paisley, then a resi- 

 dent of Eathurst, mnde large e()llccti(niS from the Leda clay of 

 that vicinity, lists of which he i)ublished in the C tnidirin Xatund- 

 isi of Montreal in 1873. Rev. Dr. Honeyman also collected a 

 number of shells at various localities along the south side of the 

 Baie des Chaleurs, and secured from one of the railway contract- 

 ors the skeleton of a white whale or porpoise nearly comi)lete 

 which had been unearthed in a railway cutting on the north side 

 of Jacquet River, Restigouche County, This skeleton is now 

 mounted and set up at the Provincial Museum, Halifax, N. S. 

 In 1872-73 the writer obtained a large -number of Pleistocene 

 shells from difi'erent localities along the Baie des Chaleurs coast 

 between Bathurst and Dalhou.--i;N duplicates of which vrere given 

 Dr. (t. F. Matthew of Ht. John, who catalogued them with 

 others from the Bay of Fundy district.* The writer also pub- 

 lished a partial list in 1885.t 



Pleistocene fossils have not yet been detec^ted in the Miram- 



*Report Progress Geol. Survey, Can., 1877-78, pp. 29-*J0, EE. 

 tAnnual Report Geol. Survey Can., Vol. 1, 1885, pp. 42-4:5, GG. 



