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NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



REPORTS ON THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE 

 PROVINCE OF CANADA. 



(Presented to the House on the 27th of January 1845.) 



The reports referred to in the above title are comprised in a 

 pamphlet of 159 pp. 8 mo. W. E. Logan Esq., is the geologist, 

 who is favorably known by his investigations in the coal fields 

 of Great Britain. 



The report is not designed to embrace a full and complete ac- 

 count even of the labors so far as they have progressed; and 

 hence, is merely a sketch of the labors which have been expend- 

 ed upon a few isolated points in Canada and Nova Scotia, to- 

 gether with a brief account of tlie reconnoisance of the field 

 generally. 



Mr. Logan gives a very clear and distinct account of the coal 

 fields of the United States, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. 

 The details of all that part of the report relating to the United 

 States, is acknowledged to have been derived from the geological 

 reports of New-York and Pennsylvania; and on page 53, Mr. Lo- 

 gan says, that in investigating each group of strata, I have usually 

 endeavored to determine its equivalent in the State Geological 

 Survey of New-York, referring to the classification of rocks estab- 

 lished by that survey as a standard by which a vast amount of 

 labor and time might be saved in Canada. Mr. Logan divides 

 the territory which falls under his inspection into two divisions, 

 Western and Eastern. The line of separation is drawn along 

 the Hudson river and Champiain valleys to Mlssisquoi bay, and 

 then to Quebec. The Western division, as connected with the 

 geology of Canada, Mr. Logan describes as a gigantic trough of 

 fossiliferous strata conformable from the summit of the coal to the 



