REVIEWS. 



REVIEWS. 



First, second and third Reports on the Geological survey of 

 the province of New-Brunswick^ by Abraham Gesner, pro- 

 vincial Geologist, Svo. Sai7it-John, New -Brunswick, 1839, 

 1840, 1841. — Remarks on the Mineralogy and Geology of 

 Nova Scotia, by C. T. Jackson and F. Alger, 4to. Cam- 

 bridge, U.S. 1832. 



The completion of the official reports on the Geology of 

 New-Brunswick by the issue of the third part of Mr. Ges- 

 ner's work in the autumn of last year^ is a good opportunity 

 for us to enter into a disquisition on the merits of his la- 

 bours and more especially with reference to their utility and 

 scientific import. We have likewise appended to these 

 works, the notice of another bearing upon a tract not very 

 remote and therefore in a degree connected with the former 

 in point of geological construction. 



The object of the geological survey to use the words of 

 the author of these reports, " was the discovery and applica- 

 tion of such substances as have been found most important 

 to the interest and support of commerce, agriculture and 

 manufacture," without direct reference to the science of 

 Geology; and its connections — in a few words as the sum- 

 mary, "to shew that New-Brunswick not only possesses 

 vast mineral wealth, but also contributes largely to that 

 collection of facts upon which a true theory of the earth can 

 only be founded." 



This report extends over the district south and west from 

 the river St.-John to the Bay of Fundy, and the American 

 Boundary line on the St.-Croix, including the British 

 Islands in the Passamaquoddy Bay. 



The peninsular of St.-Andrews, which is first noticed. 



