at the depth of twenty feet below the present soil, per- 

 fectly resembling that which is taken from the borders 

 of creeks and bays of salt water, in its odour and other 

 properties. 



This clay contains numerous bivalves, and some 

 univalve-shells now found on our sea shore ; and 

 rolled stones of granite or gneiss, with those little 

 shells adhering, which seamen call barnacles* One 

 of these wells is twenty miles from the sea shore, 

 and three or four miles from the nearest tide-water^ 

 above which, it is elevated perhaps seventy feet." 



Although the whole coast of Labrador was subject 

 to the operations of this current until it was nearly de- 

 prived of its soil ; yet, owing to the direction of the 

 curreut, and distance or extent of country over which 

 it had to pass, that is, from the coast of Labrador to 

 the mouth of the Hudson river, littk or no alluvial 

 formation is perceivable until we come to the mouth 

 of Connecticut river, or rather the east end of Long- 

 Island, which is a little south east of the Connecti- 

 cut river, and is strictly alluvial, a distance of near- 

 ly seventeen degrees of longitude and about ten 

 of latitude. 



I may here be "permitted to repeat, that as soon a? 

 the waters of the ocean had risen to a sufficient height, 

 and the general current had acquired a power, suffi- 

 cient to check the current of the river St, Lawrence, 

 in direct opposition to which it was urging its force, a 

 new order of things was established, and a wonderful 

 increase of power added ; for the waters of Baffin's 



