HONEYMAN — ON GEOLOGY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 19 



POST PLIOCENE. 



I have already in passing referred to a deep cutting on the 

 north side of the new bridge of the Nepisiguit. This is in the deep 

 drift overlying the granite. That this is the glacial drift is evident 

 from the great coarseness of the material — the massiveness of the 

 enclosed boulders — the want of the stratification — and the absence 

 of marine relics (fossils). 



I also noticed the first cutting across the Tattagouche. 



This is of a different character from the preceding. The ma- 

 terial here is stratified. It is of marine origin. The abundance 

 of shells to be found in the beds unmistakably indicate the origin of 

 the deposits. The Rev. C. H. Paisley, of Bathurst, has described 

 the various beds as they appeared when the cutting was fresh, 

 Sfivins: the measurements and characteristics of each. When I 

 examined the cutting, the sides were washed and run down, conse- 

 quently the thinner beds were obscured. For Mr. Paisley's 

 description, vide Canadian Naturalist, vol. 7. 1. From 1 to 7 

 of Mr. Paisley's section were indistinct. 8 and 9, the two to 

 which Mr. Paisley gives an average thickness of about ten feet, are 

 the most interesting ; these consist of clay and sand. Springs of 

 water issuing from them, wash out the shells from the beds and 

 expose them in the furrows. Besides shells I noticed peculiar sandy 

 concretions washed down by the water. These were of varying 

 shape, circular and irregular ; many of them have the shape of 

 ginger root ; one of them of the pelvis of a mammal. The fossils 

 which I collected out of clays 8 and 9, are the following : — 



Saxicava rugosa, Leda truncata, 



Tellina graznlandica, Buccinum undatum, 



Tellina proximo,, Natica grcenlandica, 



Fusus tornatus, Natica clausa, 



Mya arenaria, Balanus Hamerui, 



Mya truncata, Balanus crenatus. 



On our way to Dalhousie, when approaching the Jacquet River, 

 we found the road crossing the I. C. R. On the road to the right 



