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observed by Sir William Dawson' and the writer’ are chiefly 
in the St. Lawrence valley and on the Baie des Chaleurs 
coast. In the former the markings produced by these occur, 
so far as I have observed them, only on rock surfaces below 
the 350 to 375 contour line above sea level, while on 
the coast of the bay referred to they were not seen higher 
than 200 feet above its surface. 
Icebergs or drift-ice played an important part in striat- 
ing the ledges on these lower levels and in transporting 
boulders. On the isthmus of Chiegnecto the striation of 
some rock surfaces is attributable to them.” 
The facts briefly outlined in the foregoing pages will 
doubtless receive large additions within a few years ; and the 
inferences deduced therefrom may consequently undergo 
some modifications as the glacial phenomena of the region 
comes to be studied in detail. This remark has reference 
more especially to the glaciation of the great Laurention 
or Archean Area. I venture to think, however, that the 
main conclusions herein advanced will stand. 
NEWFOUNDLAND. 
Newfoundland, although not forming part of Canada 
is geographically connected with it and a passing reference 
may here be made to its glacial phenomena. According 
to the late Alex. Murray, C.M.G., Director of the Geological 
Survey of that Colony, its surface every where shows marks 
of glacier-ice.* These are well described in the paper re- 
ferred to below. Mr Murray held to the theory of a con- 
tinental glacier, however, but his facts indicate that ice 
movements have been quite variable, following river valleys, 
‘Acadian Geology, 2nd and 3rd eds. Notes on the Post Pliocene 
Geology of Can., 1872, Can. Naturalist, etc. 
Annual Report Geol. Surv. of Can., 1886, Vol. II., part M. Tran- 
sactions of the Royal Soc. of Canada, 1886, in a paper on The 
Glaciation and Pleistocene subsidence of Northern New Brunswick 
and South-Eastern Quebec. 
3Annual report, Geol. Surv. of Can. 1885, Vol. I, part G.G. 
‘Glaciation of Newfoundland. Transactions of Royal Soc. of 
Canada, 1882. 
