VII.- NOTES ON THE GEOLOGY AND BOTANY OF DIGBY NECK. 

 BY PROF. L. W. BAILEY, PH. D., F. E. S. C., University 

 of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N. B. 



(Read 10th December, 1894.) 



Of the more readily accessible portions of Nova Scotia there 

 is probably none less frequently visited, or of which less is 

 known by ordinary travellers, than the peninsula commonly 

 known as Digby Neck. Thus, while hundreds or thousands are, 

 in the course of every summer, whirled along the rails from 

 Yarmouth to Digby, and vice versa, or are forced into expressions 

 of admiration as they steam through the wonderful passage of 

 Digby Gut, few ever think it worth while to visit and study 

 the long, curious neck of land whose eastern end forms one of 

 the pillars of that famous gateway, and which, stretching thence 

 to the westward as a narrow and yet almost mountainous ridge, 

 separates the waters of St. Mary's Bay from those of the Bay of 

 Fundy. Even professional naturalists and geologists, usually 

 upon the alert for whatever is new or instructive in the world of 

 nature, would seem in but few instances to have visited Digby 

 Neck, except that portion immediately adjacent to the town of 

 Digby, and observations upon its structure, physical features, 

 mineral contents or floral characteristics, are alike few. And 

 yet it may safely be said that, with the exception of Blomidon, no 

 area of equal extent is to be found in Nova Scotia, and probably 

 not in eastern America, which presents such peculiar features of 

 scenery, geological structure, plant distribution, or mineral 

 associations, as are here met with. 



It has hence been thought that the following notes, taken 

 during a sojourn of several weeks upon the Neck, in connection 

 with the work of the geological survey, may be of interest to the 

 members of the Institute, and possibly encourage others to the 

 task of its further exploration. 



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