20 HONEYMAN ON GEOLOGY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 



at a distance of about a quarter of a mile, I entered a deep cutting, 

 similar to the fossiliferous section at Somerset Vale. Here the 

 beds were obscured, still the clays were sufficiently distinct for 

 recognition. From these I collected the same fossils as in the pre- 

 ceding section. 



This section is south of Jacquet River, I. C. R. bridge. To 

 the north of the bridge I examined another deep cutting. A road 

 bridge was in the course of construction, spanning the cutting. In 

 this I found as before, clay with gravel and sands overlying. 

 These beds are now somewhat famous as the sepulchre of the 

 Beluga vermontana (?). [Dr. Gilpin's paper in the Transactions.] 

 I was enabled to identify its bed by clay and fossils found in the 

 neural arches of the vertebrae. In the clay bed of the section I 

 found the same fossils as before. 



A quarter of a mile from Dickie's, four miles farther north, I 

 examined a deep cutting and found beds similar to those already 

 described. In the clay bed I found fossils of the same genera and 

 species as in the others. The fossils in the last cutting were better 

 preserved than those found at Tattagouche. This may arise from 

 the difference in the moisture of the clays. We have thus in a dis- 

 tance of eighteen miles examined four localities, all containing Post 

 Pliocene beds of the Champlain epoch, with characteristic fossils. 



I examined cuttings in the vicinity of River Charlos, but the 

 clay beds, if they exist, did not appear. I also examined others, 

 south of the Tattagouche, with the same result. When I was 

 leaving Bathurst, the Hon. John Ferguson, senator, gave me a 

 small oyster, said to be taken from beds in a cutting on his farm 

 near Bathurst. 



I have this evening directed your attention to the principal 

 Geological Formations of New Brunswick. 



These are the Laurentian ; Huronian or Cambrian ; Lower 

 Silurian ; Upper Silurian ; Devonian ; Carboniferous ; Igneous ; 

 Post Pliocene. 



In time we have ranged from the far remote past, to time 

 comparatively of yesterday. 



We have begun with a period when life was eozonal. Passing 



