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The distribution and extent of the marshes. 
Th ] under discussion possess, as will later beshown, 
peculiarities which clearly differentiate them from the ordinary 
salt marshes so common everywhere about the mouths of tidal 
rivers in this country and in Europe, and hence are of a type 
rare if not unique. The ordinary marshes are also abundant in 
this region (though of small extent), particularly along the 
Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. Others, more like those we are 
considering, occur in the Bay of Fundy at Annapolis Basin, at 
Musquash, at Pisarinco, at St. John, at St. Martins, at Martins 
Head and elsewhere, sometimes diked and sometimes not. But 
in their complete and perfect form, the Fundy salt marshes are 
confined to the two heads of the Bay, 2. ¢., to Minas Basin and 
Chignecto Bay; and they are largest and finest in the latter. 
Their extent and distribution are very clearly shown upon the 
surface geology maps of this region, and, for Chignecto Bay, in 
the accompanying map (fig. 7). In Chignecto Bay they begin 
at Rougie (or Petit Rocher), just west of Cape Enrage, and 
thence extend irrregularly to the Shepody River; they occur in 
places along the Petitcodiac and Memramcook Rivers, and reach 
their perfection of size, economic value and scientific interest at 
the head of Cumberland Basin, whence they radiate up the val- 
leys of the several small rivers of that district, the Tantramar, Aulac, 
Misseguash, LaPlanche, and (to a lesser extent) the Nappan, 
Maccan and Hebert. Largest of all is the combined Tantra- 
mar-Aulac marsh, shown in detail upon the accompanying map 
(jig. 2), and it is this, with the Misseguash marsh and the She- 
pody marsh, that I have studied. 
The total area of the marshes with the related bogs is only 
approximately known. In 1895, Mr. Chalmers, of the Geologi- 
cal Survey, after a careful computation, estimated 34,300 acres 
of diked and undiked marsh in New Brunswick, of which 9,100 
acres were in Albert county west of the Petitcodiac, and 25,200in 
‘Westmorland north of the Misseguash. Mr. Monro, a profes- 
guash Marsh Co.; to Mr. Howard Trueman, of Point de Bute; and to Mr. William 
Faweett, of Upper Sackville. Mr. F. A. Dixon, of Sackville, has aided greatly by 
collecting for me seeds of many of the marsh plants. 
