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such bread is more digestible than ordinary bread, but 

 because the branny particles present cause irritation to 

 such an extent that the bread is prematurely expelled from 

 the digestive organs, and by this means the oppressive feel- 

 ing of dyspepsia is removed. It follows, therefore, that 

 although the " entire wheat flour," or whole meal, may con- 

 tain more nourishment than white flour, the system is able 

 to obtain more nutriment from the ordinary white flour. 



On a Permian Moraine in Prince Edward 

 Island. 



By F. Bain, Esq., North River, P.E.I, 

 (i 



Tbe Trout River, which is the eastern branch of the 

 Mill River, Prince Edward Island, flows in a deep and 

 picturesque valley, cut through the horizontal Triassic 

 strata which cap the rock" formations of this part of the 

 country. On either side of the stream, the rounded hills 

 of fertile red sandstone rise tw6 hundred feet, clothed 

 with bright, deciduous groves or golden with the ripened 

 fields of autumn. At the foot of these hills, at a place 

 called Blackman's Island, a conspicuous ridge or mound, 

 ten to twenty feet in height, fifty yards broad, and five 

 hundred yards in length, runs along the left bank of the 

 river, assuming much the appearance of a Quaternary 

 glacial moraine. On examination, however, we find that 

 it is formed by a hard mass of sandstone conglomerate, 

 which has resisted denudation, while the surrounding 

 softer strata have been carried away. A stratified portion 

 at its base shows it to possess the same general dip as the 

 Permian rocks of the district, viz., S. 22° E. < 2°. General 

 direction of the conglomerate ridge, S. 35° E. The supe- 

 rior beds, which once overlaid it, as seen in adjacent sec- 

 tions, are horizontal. 



This ridge of ancient conglomerate is composed of 

 rounded masses of red sandstone, sometimes two feet in 

 diameter, gravel, sand and clay, with some fragments of 



