170 THE JCK A<;K in CANADA. 



the iiortliwiiid, has liy no nicinis l)et'ii I'xcliisivoly so: 

 boulders haviiiif lu'cii carritiil in viirious tlii'ct'tions, ami 

 inoro esi)ociiilly from the more elevated and rocky dis- 

 tricts to the lower j^aounds in their vicinity. I'rofessoi' 

 Hind has shown the existence of ii similar relation 

 between the boulders of New Ih'unswick and the hilly 

 ran^(!s of that country. 



Such observations as 1 ha\'e been abh' to make in Nova 

 Scotiii and New Urunswick, and those of lliml, Matthews 

 and others, show a L,HMieral southerly and south-easterly 

 direction of r.triation, witii some local variations. The 

 Ke})orts of Mr. K. Chalmers of the (reoloi^ical Survey of 

 Canada have, hoW(!ver, contributed a larLje mass of new 

 material,* and have <nnw. far to enable us to distinguish 

 the ellects of local <flacier action from those of sea-borne 

 ice. It would aiii)ear, from these ol nervations, that while 

 local glaciers have l)een shed in diflerent directions, even 

 from the comparatively low mountains of the maritinn? 

 provinces, a large and even donunant intluence has been 

 exercised by marine agencies. The tables of striation in 

 Mr. Chalmers' l{e[)ort of 1888-0 are especially worthy of 

 study in this res[)ect. His general results for southern 

 New lirunswick are thus stated : f " Co-ordinating the 

 (lata at hand resi)ecting the glaciation of the regi(.)n, it 

 would seem that the theory of local glaciers on the higher 

 grounds and ice-bergs or floating ice upon the lower, 

 (luring the post-tertiary submergence of the.se, is suflficient 

 to account ior all the facts coming under oljservation." 



* Report Geol. Survey of Canada, 188.5 and following years. 



t Report of 1889, Ottawa, 1890. See also papers by Mr. Chalmers 

 in Canadian Record of Science, and Trans. Royal Society of Canada, 

 1886, p. 139. 



