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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



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 The name "Acadia" — Geological Bibliography of the Acadian Provinces, 1 



CHAPTER 11. 



General description of the Acadian Provinces — Table of Formations, . 14 



CHAPTER III. 



The Modern Period. 



Marshes — Submarine Forests — Intervals — Lake Deposits — Infusorial 



Earth — Lake Margins — Peat Bogs — Drift Sand — Earthquakes, . . 21 



CHAPTER IV. 



The Modern Period — Continued. 

 Pre-historic Man — Results of Forest Fires, 41 



CHAPTER V. 



The Post-pliocene Period. 

 Unstratified Drift — Travelled Boulders— Striated Rocks— Glacial Pheno- 

 mena — Peat under Boulder Clay — Marine Shells — Stratified Gravels — 

 Remains of Mastodon, 58 



CHAPTER VI. 



, . The Trias or New Red Sandstone. 



/leneral Distribution— Red Sandstones- Trap— Truro to Avon Estuary— 



/ Blomidon to Briar Island, 86 



CHAPTER VII. 



The Trias — Continued. 

 Truro to Cape d'Or— General Remarks— Minerals of the Trap and Red 



Sandstone, 99 



