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Introductory, 7 



Corrections of Geological Map, 9 



The Mobern Period — Clianges of Level — The Acadian Bay — Oyster- 



Beds — Sand Dunes — Shore Kidges — Miemac Remains, ... 13 



The Post-Pliocene — Climate — Boulder Clay and Glacial Erosion — Pan 

 Ice — Deposits in Prince Edward Island — New Fossils and New 

 Localities, ........... 19 



The Trias — New Facts as to Prince Edward Island — Fossils of the 



Trias, 28 



The Permo-Carboxiferous — Development and Fossils in Nova Scotia 



and Prince Edward Island, ........ 30 



The Carboniferous — Recent Discoveries in Different Coal-fields — Lower 

 Members of the Carboniferous — Their Arrangement and Equiva- 

 lents — Manganiferous Limestone — New Carboniferous Fossils — 

 Origin of Coal, .......... 39 



The Devonian — Its Development in Acadia and North America 



generally— Its Flora, 69 



The Upper Sih'rian — Volcanic Rocks in — The Mnscarene Series — The 

 Wentworth Series — New Fossils — -Restriction of Upper Silurian 

 Areas, ........... 72 



The Lower Silurian — Largely Represented by Volcanic Beds — The 

 Cobequid Series and its Equivalents — Lower Silurian of Cape 

 Breton, 78 



The Cambrian — ^The Acadian Series — The Quartzite and Slate Series of 

 the Atlantic Coast — Intrusive Granite and iletamorphism — Fossils 

 —Age of Gold Veins, 81 



The Huronian — In New Brunswick — Supposed Equivalents in Nova 



Scotia, 87 



The Laurentian — New Facts as to New Brunswick — Supposed Lau- 



rentiaii of Nova Scotia, ........ 88 



Comparisons of PalEeozoic Rocks witli those of other Countries, . . 90 



Mineral Resources — Coal — Iron — Copper — Antimony — Gold — Man- 

 ganese — Lead — Building and Ornamental Stones — Grindstones — 

 Gypsum, &c., .......... 92 



Notes and Addenda 99 



Classified Index to the Paheontology of liie Third Kdiliuu of Acadian 



Geology, 103 



