PART IV. 

 GEOLOGY. 



CHAPTER XL 



Geology — Rocks and Soils — Primary Rocks— Interment of recent Fishes 

 in Strata — Coal Measures — Physical Features of the Coal Beds — 

 Episode of Forest Life — New Red Sandstone — Glacial Phenomena, 

 past and present — Table of Rock Formations, with their valuable 

 Minerals. 



THE geological features of New Brunswick are very in- 

 teresting, but rather complicated, and in places by no 

 means easily worked ; the long winter, extensive forest tracts, 

 general level country, with few cliff exposures and great depth 

 of glacial drift on the surface, are antagonistic to the geologist's 

 researches ; nevertheless, the chief river valleys offer fair 

 sections of the strata, which are well exposed in the southern 

 parts of the province, and along the coast lines and islands of 

 the Gulf of the St. Lawrence and Bay of Fundy, where they 

 have been studied with care by several competent geologists. * 



* See "Dawson's Acadian Geology," Drs. Gesner and Robb ; Professor 

 Bailey's and Hart and Hind's Reports ; Professor Johnston's Map and 

 Report on the Agricultural Capabilities of the Province ; Mr. Matthew, 

 Jour. Geol. Soc. Lon., vol. xxi., and lately Mr. Hind's paper in vol. xxv. 



