GEOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ACADIAN PROVINCES. 7 



been removed in the meantime from the scene of his former labours, 

 and now dwells in the great Silurian plain of Lower Canada ; but 

 he still retains a lively interest in the geology of his native province, 

 and has endeavoured to carry forward to completion some of the 

 subjects left unfinished in 1855, and to acquaint himself as far as 

 possible with the results of the researches of other observers. 



In the edition of 1855, Nova Scotia was not only taken as the 

 typical region for the whole of the Acadian provinces ; but the scope 

 of the work was in a great degree limited to that province. In the 

 present edition it has become necessary to take a wider range, more 

 especially in regard to New Brunswick, since the researches of Dr 

 Robb, Professor Bailey, Mr Matthews, Mr Hartt, and Professor 

 Hind, have developed to a remarkable extent the geology of the 

 latter province, and have disclosed there some geological formations 

 of great importance not as yet recognised in Nova Scotia. 



The earliest account of the geology of Nova Scotia with which I 

 am acquainted, is contained in an elaborate paper in Silliman's 

 American Journal of Science for 1828, by C. T. Jackson and 

 F. Alger, Esqs., of Boston, United States. Messrs Jackson and 

 Alger directed their attention principally to the trap and red sandstone 

 formations of the western districts, and the interesting crystallized 

 minerals contained in the former ; but they also gave a tolerably 

 correct view of the distribution of the rock formations throughout 

 the province, and made the earliest attempt to represent them on 

 a geological map. Their determinations of the minerals of the trap 

 district are accurate, and their catalogue of these minerals still admits 

 of little extension. This paper was published in a separate form in 

 1832. 



An important addition was made to the geology of the province in 

 1829, in a chapter contributed to Haliburton's History of Nova Scotia, 

 by Messrs Brown and Smith, then exploring the province on behalf 

 of the General Mining Association ; and the former of whom has 

 subsequently been one of the most successful investigators of the 

 geology of the coal formation. The article in Haliburton relates 

 principally to the eastern districts, and is chiefly remarkable as 

 containing the most accurate views of the development of the carbo- 

 niferous system in Nova Scotia promulgated previously to the visit of 

 Sir Charles Lyell in 1842. 



In 183G, a volume, entitled " Remarks on the Geology and 

 Mineralogy of Nova Scotia, " by A. Gesner, F.G.S., was published in 

 Halifax, and was the first work on the local geology extensively circu- 

 lated in the province. This work was in great part a popular resumSoi 



