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iirul Victoria Counties, wa.s followed by volcanic ilisturbance. 

 About this period aro.se such well-known features as Mount 

 iloyal in Quebec, Mars Hill, just over the Canadian border, in 

 Maine, and in New Brunswick the Sugar Loaf and Dalhousie 

 Mountain in Restigouche, Currie's Mountain near Fredericton, 

 and Chanicook Mountain near .St. Andrews — all of volcanic 

 origin. 



A n\ii\) of New Brunswick, on which all the evidences of 

 volcanic activity were marked, would show that far from being 

 always the peaceful country we know, it has been many times, 

 so to speak, a pretty hot place. 



Our hemisphere is called the New World, and this term may 

 be correctly applied to part of it, especially perhaps the part 

 which Columbus discovered. But Eastern Canada and the 

 North Eastern States is in reality the Old World, older far than 

 the greater part of Europe. 



Our Laurentian Hills were grand features when the Alps and 

 Rockies formed the comparatively level bed of a shallow sea. In 

 both Europe and America the formation of land began in the 

 north, and the highlands of Scotland are supposed to be of equal 

 age with our oldest rocks. 



In Europe the formations of the Tertiary age are very much 

 developed and have reached a great thickness. This resulted in 

 the ui)lifting of the Alps and the mountains of Italy, and the 

 heat engendered by these di -turbances has not yet been dissipat- 

 ed, but even now creates havoc, as at Vesuvius, and is also very 

 evident in Sicily. In Northern France are very perfect examples 

 of volcanoes and evidence of their action, discontinued probably 

 not very long ago in geological time, which, in the Tertiary age, 

 is reckoned by tens and hundreds of thousands of years, instead 

 of by millions as in the Palaeozoic. 



In the Post-Tertiary period it is figured by thousands of years, 

 and since the advent of man, when speaking of time in a general 

 way, centuries are our units — insignificant periods compared 

 with the immense ages preceding. Such considerations may 

 make man very humble or very proud. While thankful that it 

 is given us to know immensely more of the beauty and variety 



