292 RECORDS OF POST-TRIASSIC CHANGES 



From the top of the divide, which is near the edge of the 

 escarpment, the surface slopes away to the north-west at angles 

 of from eight to ten degrees. This is about the inclination of 

 the beds of trap rock, and the present surface therefore corres- 

 ponds in general inclination with the original surface of the 

 formation. This ridge is cut by transverse valleys, the bottoms 

 occupied by small brooks which seem altogether too small to 

 have excavated the trenches they now occupy. A bank of 

 boulder clay containing glaciated pebbles was seen resting in 

 the bottom of a ravine on the floor of trap rock over which one 

 of the larger brooks is now flowing. If these depressions were 

 filled with the boulder clay of the Glacial period, the work since 

 that time has been wholly expended in clearing out their ancient 

 channels and the brooks have but just begun to renew their 

 excavation on the Trap rock. 



The four miles of coast examined form the south-east shore 

 of Scot's Bay, and from Ira Woodworth Bay, Cape Split, the 

 terminating point of the huge wall of rock forming the opposite 

 side of Scot's Bay, bears nearly north. At this point the shore 

 swings from south-west to about west-south-west which is the 



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general trend of the coast for some sixty or seventy miles. With 

 the exception of the Arnygdaloidal character of the Trap, the 

 shore below high water mark is not unlike many other portions 

 of this Bay of Fundy coast. Beachy coves are more common 

 because of the relatively sheltered position, but between these 

 the black rough rocks slope seaward in sheets and reefs with 

 very few outlying rocks and ledges. The sea at high tide washes 

 the bases of a line of low cliffs some twenty to forty feet high, 

 except in the deeper coves, where a narrow strip of gravel beach 

 is left uncovered by all but the highest tides. Several brooks 

 empty in small coves within the area examined and in their 

 beds the extent of the shore formations landward can be 

 traced. 



