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names of Loch Lomond and Ben Lomond respectively 

 have been given. 



Nor did I regret it on other grounds. To one travel 

 ling over a new country so rapidly as I had done over 

 this of New Brunswick, with the view of forming, and 

 of subsequently stating for the information of others, an 

 opinion as to its agricultural capabilities and of calling 

 to my aid, in the broad views I was necessitated to take, 

 the aids of geological structure the country through 

 which I had come, during the last fourteen days espe 

 cially, changing in character perpetually, and traversed by 

 great fractures, did appear very perplexing. But leaving 

 now, as I did, finally, in this part of my tour, the red 

 sandstones and coal-measures, and coming upon what, 

 by its true igneous character, had evidently been a seat 

 of large disturbances in remote times, I was enabled to 

 pick up the true key, I believe, to the whole compli 

 cated structure of this south-eastern, as well as to other 

 important parts of the province, and to throw a very 

 clear light on the agricultural character and capabilities 

 of the whole, and upon the immediate cause of their 

 varied capabilities, which had so frequently re-presented 

 themselves to my notice as I passed along. 



I had seen, wherever I went over the country, that, 

 where the red conglomerate appeared, more or less good 

 land was certain to exist that the same was true in the 

 neighbourhood of beds of limestone, and always where 

 the red marls, salt springs, and gypsum occurred. It 

 was equally conspicuous that, where the grey sandstones 

 of the coal-measures prevailed, the soils were inferior in 

 quality unless covered with drift from other rocks 

 though not always in an equal degree. On some beds of 

 the coal-measures where the sandstones were more inter 

 mingled with shales, for example the soils formed from 

 their mixed debris were more tenacious and capable than 

 such as were derived from siliceous sandstones alone. 



