170 GLACIAL SUCCESSION IN CENTRAL LUNENBURG PREST. 



7. Recent subsidence of our southern coast, as our buried 

 forests and peat bogs indicate. 



As is well-known, the study of glacial geology is of vast 

 importance to the future of gold mining in Nova Scotia, and the 

 discovery of important lodes are even now depending on a true 

 explanation of the mysteries which surround the deposition and 

 distribution of those deposits. What makes the matter very 

 intricate, is that each district has been subject to local as well as 

 general influences, thus necessitating a thorough local investiga- 

 tion before any trustworthy conclusion can be arrived at. 

 Neglect of such a thorough investigation has been the chief 

 cause of the many failures in the search for gold-bearing veins 

 in Nova Scotia, But the days are fast going by when the 

 working miner looked with supreme contempt on the study of 

 geology as the hobby of a few students and men of leisure. It 

 has been said that the science of the past will be the common- 

 sense of the future, and the writer can make no apology for 

 this article other than that he is contributing his feeble efforts 

 to bring about this much-desired end. 



