98 MINERAL RESOURCES. 



logical Survey of Canada, those of the Inspector of Mines of Nova 

 Scotia, those of Professor Hind on the Gold Fields, and those made on 

 behalf of private mining corporations, contain a large amount of 

 detail respecting the resources and mining industries of the Acadian 

 Provinces, which it is impossible to summarize here. The above notes 

 are intended merely to supplement the more extended notices given 

 in Acadian Geology. 



The great coal and iron industries of the Acadian Provinces, and 

 with these indirectly all other mineral industries, are at present 

 much depressed, not only by the general depression of trade in these 

 minerals, but also by those artificial restrictions and arrangements 

 which shut out their produce from the largest American market, 

 while they give no preference or protection at home. It is creditable 

 to the intelligence and industry of these Provinces, and at the same 

 time an indication of their great mineral wealth, that under these 

 circumstances they have been able to do so much as appears from 

 the Report of the Inspector of Mines for 1876. 



