Miscellaneous Intelligence. - AAl 
At the distance of 326 paces from the abrupt edge of the marsh, 
and about twenty-five feet below the level of the highest tides, which 
here rise in all about forty feet, the mud becomes mixed with sand and 
gravel, with occasional large stones, probably dropped by the ice. At 
this level appear erect stumps and many prostrate trunks of trees. 
The stumps are scattered as in an open forest, and occupy a belt of 
135 paces in breadth and extending on either side for a much greater 
distance. Isaw more than thirty stumps in the limited portion of the 
belt which I examined. Between the lowest erect stumps and the wa- 
ter-level at low tide is a space of 170 paces, in which | observed only 
fragments of roots and prostrate trunks, which may, however, be the 
remains of trees swept away by the ice from the portion of the shore 
on which these fragments now lie. 
On digging around some of the stumps, they were found to be rooted 
in ground having all the characters of ordinary upland forest-soil. In 
one place the soil was a reddish sandy loam with small stones, like the 
neighboring upland of Fort Lawrence. In another place it was a black 
vegetable mould, resting on a whitish sandy subsoil. The smallest 
point. Ina few places the lowest layer of the mud originally depos- 
ited over the forest soil could be observed. It is a very tough unctuous 
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@ narrowing of the mouth of the Bay. This theory is countenanced 
by the present state of the tideway of the St. John River, in which a 
ledge of rock so obstructs the narrow entrance, that, while at low tide 
there is a considerable fall outward, at half tide the water becomes 
level, and at high tide there is a fall inward; the level within not rising 
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