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except from the loftier and more exposed portions of the ridges. 

 The prevalence of compact and arnygdaloidal trap from the 

 North Mountain in the Boulder clay all over the south side of the 

 valley, as well as the rounded and worn north facing slopes of 

 the elevations indicate that the general movement of the trans- 

 porting agent vva.s from the north. The general trend of all the 

 striations I have yet seen in this vicinity is in the same direction. 



Although Boulder clay is rarely seen along the exposed side 

 of the North Mountain except when sheltered by the precipitous 

 walls of the deep gorges which have been alluded to, on the 

 stretch of shore south-east of Scot's Bay, deposits of considerable 

 thickness rest alike on trap and limestone and contain striated 

 fragments of both formations. In general the nws has the 

 same decided red color as the sandstone cliffs underlying the 

 trap at Tape Blomidon. One exception to this occurs in Ira 

 Woodworth Bay where the underlying portion of this deposit is 

 completely made up of a calcareous light gre}' clay mixed with 

 angular, occasionally striated fragments of the sedimentary 

 formation. It is wholly composed of the broken and pulverized 

 layers of this sedimentary formation and passes up abruptly 

 into the red clay and trap boulders among which no trace of 

 limestone could be found. 



The abundance of boulder clay on this strip of coast proves it 

 to have been a region of deposit rather thnn of erosion during 

 its burial beneath the ice of the Glacial Period. That deposition 

 was not continuous is shown, however, by the occurrence of the 

 debris of the adjacent calcareous strata at the most westerly 

 point at which these strata were seen. Farther east the red 

 deposits seemed to rest directly upon the light grey limestone 

 nnd sandstone and these portions do not seem to have sufferer] 

 as much from the grinding action of the ice sheet. 



The evidence from stnations and from travelled boulders 

 prove that the general movement of this ice sheet wa*< from the 

 north. From Ira Woodworth Bay, Cape Split bears due north 

 and from this bold Cape a line of vertical cliffs from two to four 

 Iwndied feet in height extends eastward for eight miles to Cape 



