Revieius — Kewagama Lake, Quebec. 555 



of tlie country there are no bridges over the rapid rivers, and the 

 roads are of the most primitive type ; shelter and food also are hard 

 to find. But the geology and scenery well repay the hardships 

 incurred. In the North Island there are the wonderful volcanoes of 

 the Taupo zone : it may be mentioned that the map of the Tarawera 

 region iu this book is specially clear and interesting, and a good 

 account is given of the eruption in 1886 that destroyed the ever- 

 to-be-regretted pink and white terraces. Again, in the South Island 

 there is the wonderful glacier system of the Southern Alps ; of these 

 some beautiful pictures are provided. Perhaps, however, the most 

 striking feature of the topography of New Zealand is the district of 

 Milford Sound in the extreme south-west. Here is found fiord 

 scenery even more wonderful than that of Norway. 



The graphic descriptions of scenery here given are illustrated by 

 many photographs and artistic coloured plates ; there are also two 

 excellent maps, one of the central part of the Southern Alps (the 

 glacier district) on a fairly large scale, the other a general map of 

 the whole island, indicating the regions described in the text. 



The last chapter, on the geography and climate of New Zealand, 

 gives an excellent short account of the chief physical features of the 

 islands. It is pointed out that perhaps no other country in the world can 

 show such a wonderful variety of physical features, and yet the whole 

 area of the Dominion is less than that of the British Isles. New Zealand 

 is as yet essentially a pastoral country, but its mining is of increasing 

 importance, and the day will surely come when the enormous water 

 power available in the mountains will be turned to account to supply 

 manufactured goods for the great population that must eventually 

 grow up both in the pastoral parts of the country itself and still more 

 in Australia, where over vast areas water power is conspicuously 

 lacking. 



This interesting and well-go taup book should do much to draw 

 the attention of geologists, explorers, and mountain climbers to a field 

 where all will find much scope for their energies, with a probable 

 harvest of results of scientific and practical value. 



IV. — Canadian Geology, 

 Kewagama Lake ^Map-Akea, Quebec. By M. E. Wilson. Canada, 



Department of Mines, Geological Survey Memoir 39. pp. vi + 139 



and map. 1913. 

 rPHE area described in this memoir lies in North- Western Quebec, 

 X and is part of the great glaciated pre-Cambrian plateau which 

 occupies so much of Canada. The basal rocks consist of an Archaean 

 complex, which includes metamorphosed sediments and volcanic rocks, 

 and batholithic intrusions of granite and gneiss. The former have 

 generally been correlated with the Keewatin. but the author 

 considered this correlation to be somewhat doubtful, and suggests 

 that the name Abitibi group be substituted. In the northern part of 

 the region the rocks belonging to this group are largely of volcanic 

 origin, including basic to acid types, but more especially those of 

 intermediate composition. The ancient lavas of the Abitibi very 



