70 RED ROCKS OF CAPE TORMENTINE. 



Thus it appeared that the red soils which had accom 

 panied us from beyond Buctouche, gradually increasing 

 in intensity of colour, were still a drift covering only, 

 and that no rocks capable of producing them yet 

 occurred thus far along the coast. 



At 9 A.M. we started again on our journey towards 

 Cape Tormentine. We passed through a country 

 similar to that of yesterday, creeks of marsh-land occur 

 ring at times on our left, and tracts of low wet land 

 covered with inferior timber, and in their present state 

 of little value to agriculture, at times on our right. We 

 saw, however, many good farms by the way, and com 

 fortable-looking houses, many of which were occupied 

 by Scottish families. At the Cape, we drove down to the 

 shore, and there found the red-sandstone rocks we had 

 been so long in quest of, as the origin of these red soils, 

 forming the entire rocks and cliffs. They were thin- 

 bedded, fine-grained, nearly horizontal, but with an 

 easterly dip, slightly south. Still the dip was not very 

 distinct ; and no junction with the yellow sandstones 

 was to be seen. It lay, doubtless, towards the extreme 

 promontory which we had passed some miles to our left. 

 Another day s leisure would have enabled us to find the 

 junction, if any is visible, and thus to determine satis 

 factorily whether these red sandstones lie over or under 

 the yellow sandstones of the productive coal-measures of 

 this province. My impression at the time was, that these 

 red rocks of Cape Tormentine overlie the yellow sand 

 stones ; and I regretted very much that the principal 

 object of my tour prevented me from thoroughly investi 

 gating the correctness of this impression. 



A glance at a map of this east coast of New 

 Brunswick will show that the red lands, and probably the 

 red rocks of the north-eastern and of the south-eastern 

 promontories of the province, may once have been 

 continuous, occupying the present site of Northumberland 



