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  - 
  Scientific 
  Intelligence. 
  

  

  II. 
  Geology 
  and 
  Mineralogy. 
  

  

  1. 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  of 
  Canada, 
  Annual 
  Report. 
  Vol. 
  vii, 
  

   for 
  1894. 
  G. 
  M. 
  Dawson, 
  Director. 
  Ottawa, 
  1896. 
  — 
  This 
  

   volume 
  includes 
  eight 
  special 
  reports 
  and 
  accompanying 
  maps 
  

   (556, 
  557, 
  567, 
  571, 
  561,562,563); 
  besides 
  the 
  Director's 
  sum- 
  

   mary 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  operations 
  of 
  the 
  survey 
  for 
  the 
  year 
  1894, 
  

   Dr. 
  G. 
  M. 
  Dawson 
  contributes 
  a 
  report 
  on 
  the 
  area 
  of 
  the 
  Kara- 
  

   loops 
  map-sheet 
  of 
  British 
  Columbia; 
  R. 
  G. 
  McConnell 
  one 
  on 
  an 
  

   Exploration 
  of 
  the 
  Finlay 
  and 
  Omenica 
  rivers; 
  D. 
  B. 
  Dowling 
  

   on 
  tne 
  country 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Red 
  Lake 
  and 
  part 
  of 
  Berens 
  

   river, 
  Keewatin; 
  R. 
  W. 
  Ells 
  on 
  the 
  southwest 
  sheet 
  of 
  the 
  

   " 
  Eastern 
  township 
  of 
  Quebec" 
  ; 
  F. 
  D. 
  Adams 
  on 
  the 
  Laurentian, 
  

   north 
  of 
  the 
  St. 
  Lawrence; 
  R. 
  Chalmers, 
  on 
  the 
  surface 
  geology 
  

   of 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  Acadian 
  provinces; 
  G. 
  C. 
  Hoffmann 
  on 
  Chemistry 
  

   and 
  Mineralogy, 
  and 
  Messrs. 
  Ingall 
  and 
  Brumell 
  on 
  the 
  Mineral 
  

   Statistics. 
  

  

  2. 
  Pleistocene 
  glaciation 
  in 
  New 
  Brunswick, 
  JVova 
  Scotia, 
  and 
  

   Prince 
  Edward 
  Island. 
  — 
  Mr. 
  Robert 
  Chalmers, 
  in 
  an 
  interesting 
  

   paper, 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  Geology 
  of 
  Canada 
  

   (vol. 
  vii, 
  1894) 
  on 
  the 
  surface 
  geology 
  of 
  eastern 
  New 
  Bruns- 
  

   wick, 
  north-western 
  Nova 
  Scotia 
  and 
  a 
  portion 
  of* 
  Prince 
  Edward 
  

   Island, 
  presents 
  the 
  following 
  conclusions 
  in 
  regard 
  to 
  the 
  glaci- 
  

   ation 
  of 
  the 
  region 
  named: 
  

  

  Summarizing 
  the 
  principal 
  facts 
  relating 
  to 
  the 
  Pleistocene 
  

   glaciation 
  of 
  the 
  region 
  under 
  review, 
  it 
  is 
  found 
  that 
  at 
  the 
  

   period 
  of 
  the 
  maximum 
  extension 
  of 
  the 
  ice 
  there 
  was 
  a 
  general 
  

   radial 
  movement 
  from 
  the 
  main 
  weve-ground 
  of 
  the 
  north-east 
  

   Appalachians, 
  northward 
  and 
  eastward 
  into 
  the 
  St. 
  Lawrence 
  

   Valley, 
  eastward 
  into 
  the 
  south-western 
  embayment 
  of 
  the 
  Gulf 
  

   of 
  St. 
  Lawrence, 
  south-eastward 
  into 
  the 
  Bay 
  of 
  Fundy 
  and 
  

   Atlantic 
  Ocean, 
  and 
  southward 
  and 
  south-westward 
  in 
  United 
  

   States 
  territory. 
  

  

  The 
  St. 
  Lawrence 
  Valley, 
  as 
  far 
  westward 
  as 
  the 
  Thousand 
  

   Islands, 
  was 
  probably 
  an 
  open 
  channel 
  in 
  the 
  latter 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  

   glacial 
  period 
  at 
  least, 
  into 
  which 
  ice 
  flowed 
  from 
  the 
  north 
  and 
  

   from 
  the 
  south. 
  

  

  Although 
  the 
  Appalachian 
  glaciers 
  here 
  referred 
  to 
  were 
  not 
  

   of 
  great 
  superficial 
  extent, 
  the 
  ice 
  which 
  occupied 
  New 
  England 
  

   and 
  south-eastern 
  Quebec 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  the 
  thickest 
  and 
  

   heaviest 
  of 
  the 
  Pleistocene 
  glaciers 
  of 
  eastern 
  North 
  America, 
  

   developed 
  in 
  these 
  latitudes; 
  and 
  the 
  geographical 
  and 
  meteoro- 
  

   logical 
  conditions 
  favor 
  the 
  view 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  only 
  surpassed 
  in 
  

   this 
  respect 
  by 
  the 
  great 
  Cordilleran 
  glacier 
  of 
  the 
  west. 
  

  

  In 
  eastern 
  Canada, 
  south 
  of 
  the 
  estuary 
  and 
  Gulf 
  of 
  St. 
  Law- 
  

   rence, 
  the 
  land 
  ice 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  consisted 
  of 
  local 
  glaciers, 
  and 
  

   the 
  different 
  parts 
  which 
  streamed 
  outwards 
  from 
  the 
  central 
  

   weve-grounds 
  have 
  been 
  differentiated 
  and 
  received 
  separate 
  

   names. 
  That 
  which 
  occupied 
  the 
  Gaspe 
  peninsula 
  and 
  the 
  Notre 
  

   Dame 
  Range 
  followed 
  the 
  drainage 
  channels, 
  generally 
  speak- 
  

  

  