CONTENTS. 



XVII 



CHAPTER I. 



The name "Acadia" — Geological Bibliography of the Acadian Provinces, 1 



CHAPTER II. 



General description of the Acadian Provinces— Table of Formations, . 14 



CHAPTER III. 



The Modern Period. 

 Marshes — Submarine Forests — Intervals — Lake Deposits — Infusorial 



Earth— Lake Margins — Peat Bogs — Drift Sand — Earthquakes, . . 21 



CHAPTER IV. 



The Modern Period — Continued. 

 Pre- historic Man — Results of Forest Fires, 41 



CHAPTER V. 



The PosT-rLiocENE Period. 

 Unstratified Drift — Travelled Boulders — Striated Rocks — Glacial Pheno- 

 mena — Peat under Boulder Clay — Marine Shells — Stratified Gravels — 

 Remains of Mastodon, 58 



CHAPTER VI. 



The Trias or New Red Sandstone. 



General Distribution — Red Sandstones — Trap — Truro to Avon Estuary — 



Blomidon to Briar Island, 8G 



CHAPTER VII. 



The Trias — Continued. 

 Truro to Cape d'Or — General Remarks— Minerals of the Trap and Red 

 Sandstone, ............ 99 



