16 GEOLOGICAL NOTES. 



01, e angle, and the tlitch inside the hreastvorks is now seareely 

 three or four feet al)ove high water. And a great jiart of (lie old 

 soldiers' eenietery (one tonihstone in whicrh records, or recorded, 

 the fact thai the oc{nii)ant of tie grave was scalped hy Indians) is 

 washed away and th'e hones scattered; and it is certain this spot 

 would not have heen cliosen as a cemetery wdien scarcely ahove the 

 level of high tide. 



At Shippegan the dyke- are now almost entirely neglected, and 

 large stretches of meadow land are going to waste. As there also 

 one sees stretches of woods where the trees have l)een killed h\ 

 what are called unusually higli tides, it is most prohalile that the 

 sinking of the land is accountahle f r lioth these results. 



When the land is so low and flat as it is generally along the 

 eastern coast of New Biunswick, a sliglit (change of elevation be- 

 comes noticeable, and a depression of 10 to 20 feet would change 

 the outline of the shore considerably. 



T found an interesting example of this during the coiuse of a 

 survey made in the winter of 1901, of the mouth of Gaspereaux 

 River and the ui)])er part of Bale Verte. 



In taking borings about the mouth of the river, 1 discovered 

 under the shallow muddy channel and mud flats an old channel 

 cut in the rock, tlu sandstone ledges on each side being perhaps 

 twenty-five feet high. Off Fort Moncton the ledge came nearest 

 the surface, and there the channel was most marked, ^nd was 

 filled chiefly with soft mud, beneath which was stiff red clay. 

 Further up stream the old channel was nearly tilled with stiff rei] 

 boulder clay, deposited probably about the end of the Glacial 

 period. 



Ahout two miles above Port Elgin, the Gas])ereau River is very 

 pretty, winoling through the farmlands with low but steep wooded 

 banks, which would be ro(;ky banks if it weie not that the rock is 

 a soft sandstone which has become worn down and concealed. 



The buried or underground channel, as that below the mud 

 of the bay may be called, could not have been worn by the tide or 

 sea currents, and therefore I believe that before the depression 



