(jeolocical notes. 15 



ed great damage and loss of life. 



Mr. .S. W. Kain, of 8t. John, has made a list, printed in 

 Bulletin No. 16 of the Natural History ^Society at St. John, of the 

 earthquakes which have heen felt in New Brunswick. They 

 number 18 in the last 89 years. 



T have heard people at Oak Point, on the St. John River, speak 

 of an earthquake which occurred there many years ago and was 

 very startling. 



My only experience of an earthquake was in the Adirondack? 

 in New York JState. I was working at a drafting table when I 

 felt the slight motion and looked up to ask a fellow engineer at 

 the same table to be still. He also looked upapparently to make 

 the same request of me, and on inquiring and finding that no- 

 body had fallen down cellar, and that nothing else had occurred 

 to e.\[)lain such a motion, we concluded that it was an earthquake, 

 and next day were sure of it when we saw that one had been re- 

 ported the day previous at a place ten miles from our work. 



Slow movements of the Earth's crust are occurring at many 

 [ilaces. ;ind perhaps over the whole of New Brunswick, but it is 

 only here and there that evidences of them can be seen. The 

 coast of New Ih'unswick appears to be sinking, though at such a 

 slow ]-ate that we need not trouble ourselves about it. 



At Navy Island, m St. John Harbor, I have seen stumps ot 

 trees still rooted in the ground, and the remains of an old peat 

 l)og, ;ill now below the level of high water. 



At Bale Verte, on Northumberland Straits, there are clear 

 evidences of the sinking of the land, and in many cases the 

 dykes are neglected on this account, and where kept up they 

 are very high. I was shown a piece of lowland between Baie 

 Verte and Port Elgin where my informant said his father used 

 to shoot partridges, perhaps forty years ago, in the thick 

 spruce woods. Now there is nothing there but stumps, the land 

 having sunk below the level of high tide, which killed the 

 trees. 



The sea is now attacking old Fort Moncton, celebrated in the 

 history of the struggle between the French and English for the 

 possession of Acadia, and has made a considerable breach in 



