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338 DEATH OF FISHES IN THE BAY OF FUNDY. 
both in extent and intensity any similar phenomena of — 
which history has preserved records. But the modern prog- d 
ress of enlightenment has greatly modified such opinions, 
and now geologists, not content with the speculations o — 
their predecessors, are earnestly endeavoring to interpret the 
Great Stone Book by comparing the former mutations in ; 
the earth’s surface with those of our own times, and thus the 7 
Science is being gradually devested of the supernatural — 
appearances and fanciful conjectures, which, for many yeus, _ 
not only encompassed but also retarded its advancement. — 
Even the simple enumeration of the discoveries which of late : 
years have brought about this grand revolution m the 
thoughts and opinions of the modern school of geologists 3 
would far exceed our limits; we will therefore elucidate the 
subject by an example which came under our own notice, | 
attempt to show the reader that many similar appearance q 
among the rock formations may possibly have been occasioned 1 
by similar causes. q 
An the Bay of Fundy, opposite the Island of Grand Mani — 
there is a large gap in the coast-line named Passamaq! x q 
Bay, into which several fair-sized rivers drain. One, pe . 
the Magagudavic River, is reached by means of a long a 4 
of several miles in length. At a short distance reer a 
there is a small creek named Anderson’s Cove, formed <a 
trappean rocks of which the coast-line is composed. w ! 
beds are considered by geologists as belonging to the pe 7 
nian or Old-Red Sandstone formations of Southern W7 a 
Brunswick. Anderson’s Cove is, in fact, the sea-ending 0 ‘ 
ravine down which runs a small stream into a very ™ Jat q 
lagoon of upwards of 1,300 feet in circumference. ye a 
ter is oval in shape, and communicates directly at di 
tide with Anderson’s Cove by means of a narrow and 
channel, filled with masses of amygdaloid trap, fragmen ihe : 
which are mixed with the mud forming at the bottom © = 
lagoon. There is a beach of sand in front of the l aod 
besides a seawall formed of sand and masses of rocks * 

