250 Messrs. Jackson and Alger on the 
No further examination was made of this coast until we 
arrived at Cape Split. This bold promontory terminating the 
eastward limit of the North mountain range, projects into the 
Bay of Fundy, and the extremity of the cape, being broken into 
detached masses, has given rise to the appropriate name by which 
itis now known. In our former remarks on this cape, we stated, 
in accordance with the common opinion, that the detached masses 
referred to, had been suddenly separated, or split off, from the 
main cape by the undermining of the amygdaloid by the sea; 
but this opinion is evidently incorrect, as is shown by the present 
vertical or conformable position of their columnar masses to those 
of the main cape, in advance of which they are stationed; proy- 
ing them to have been separated by the gradual degradation of 
the rock in situa. [See Plate II. of this volume.]* This cape 
forms the southern boundary of the strait called by the inhabi- 
tants the “Gut,” which connects the waters of the Bay of Fundy 
with the Basin of Mines. It presents, on either side, a mural 
precipice of about three hundred feet, and is fifteen miles from 
Cape Blomidon. The intervening coast consists of columnar 
trap resting on, and alternating with amygdaloid. These rocks 
occasionally rise to a great height, especially about half the dis- 
* This plate, from Des Barres’ Chart, does not give so accurate a view of the 
present features of this singular spot as we could have wished, and the same may 
be said also of Plate I. taken from the same work. But we were unwilling to 
alter either of them very materially from mere recollection, and have therefore had 
them copied on stone very nearly as we found them. Notwithstanding the 
changes which the two places have undergone in the elapse of more than a half 
century, they yet convey a striking semblance of the peculiar physiognomy of 
either, and will instantly recall to the mind, the impressions that were previously 
fixed in it, while beholding, for the first time, the scenery which they are intended 
to portray. 
