, SOMK LOCAL DETAILS. I7I 



This ^feiiGval statement aitpears to iiie to apjily tlirou<,'li(uii 

 tlie maritime provinces, (lioiinl, there are many local 

 eomplexities, owiii,<r to the peeiiHar oro^'raphiea! ami 

 j,'eo^U,ra)tIiical fealui'es of the ret^ion. 



The lollowiiin- notes relat(^ to a lew special ftNtturcs 

 referred to in my previonsly jjiihlisiied jiajiers, and to ihc 

 occurrence of marine fossils in the maritime provinces. 



The travelled and nntravelled houlders are usnallv 

 internnxed in the drift. In some instances, jiowevei', the 

 former ajjpear to he most numerous near the surface of 

 the mass, and their horizontal distrihution is also vei'v 

 irrej^'ular. In examinine' coast sections of the drift we 

 may find for some distance a great aliuuthuice of an,<fular 

 hlocks, with few travelled houlders, oi' hoih varieties are 

 equally intermixed, or travelled houlders ])revail ; and we 

 may often olwerve particular kinds of ilicse last eroupcd 

 together, as, for instance, a nund)er of I)locks of granite, 

 greenstone, syenite, etc., near each other, as if they had 

 been removed from their original beds and all deposited 

 together at one operation. On the surface of the country 

 where the woods have been removed, this arrangement is 

 sometnnes ecpially evident; thus humh'eds of granite 

 boulders maybe seen to cumber one hmited spot, while in 

 its neighbourhood they are comparatively rare, [t is also 

 well known to the farmers in the more rocky districts that 

 many spots which ap])ear to be covered with boulders 

 have, when these are removed, a layer of soil comparatively 

 free from stones beneath. These appearances may in some 

 instances result from the action of currents of water, which 

 have in spots carried oli' the sand or clay, leaving the 

 boulders behind; but in many cases this is manifestly the 

 original arrangement of the material, the superficial layer 



