CONTENTS. 



Pack. 

 CHAPTER I. --Historical Details. — Extracts from previous 



Publications— Lists of Papers ...... 1 



CHAPTER II. — The Succes.sion of Depo.sits. — Tables of Succes- 

 sion and Correlation — The Boulder Clay — The Leda Clay and 

 Forest Beds —The Saxicava Sand — Terraces and Inland Cliffs 

 —The later Boulder Drift 27 



CHAPTER III. — Physical and Climatal Conditions. — General 

 Conditions— Causes of Glaciation and Distribution of Erratics 

 — Glaciers— Cordilleran, Laurentide and Apalachian— Differ- 

 ential Elevation— Views of Dr. Torell . . . .71 



CHAPTER IV. — Physical and Climatal Conditions {cont.) 

 Causes, etc. (cow^.)— Sea-borne Ice — Field Ice and Icebergs — 

 The Missouri Coteau, and other so-called Moraines — Ice- 

 Freshets — Bordage Ice — Ice in Tidal Estuaries — Elevation 

 and Depression contemporaneous with aqueous Agencies — 

 Climatal Conditions — Date of the Glacial Period . . . 105 



CHAPTER v.— Some Local Details.— Geographical Regions of 

 Canada — Newfoundland and Labrador — Anticosti — Prince 

 Edward Island — Nova Scotia and New Bi'unswick — Lower St. 

 Lawrence, North Side— Lower St. Lawrence, South Side— St. 

 Lawrence and Ottawa Valleys — Western Regions . . . 157 



CHAPTER VI. — Pleistocene Fossils. — Animal Fossils, Proto- 

 zoa — Ccclenterata — Echinodermata — Mollusca, etc. — Annul- 

 osa— Arthropoda — Vertebrata — Fossils of the Arctic Basin — 

 Fossil Plants — Summary of Fossils— Man in Canada . 209 



CHAPTER VII.— General Conclusions 287 



