NOTE ON OLIVERS CAVE. 
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article 11. 
NOTE ON OLIVER’S CAVE. 
By G. F. Matthew, LL. D., F. R. S. C. 
Somewhere in the “ sixties ” the finding of a cave on Howe’s 
(now called Sandy Point) road was announced in St. John, the 
discovery having been made by a man named Oliver, living in 
the parish of Portland (now incorporated with St. John). 
At that time the Natural History Society of New Brunswick 
was but recently formed, and two of its zealous young members, 
Messrs. I. Allen Jack and Robert Matthew, undertook to explore 
the cave. The former of these gentlemen is now dead, and the 
latter, still a life member of the Society, is in Cuba. Robert 
Matthew, or the two, collectively, wrote an article on the cave, 
which was deposited with the Society (but which cannot now 
be found). 'With this article he filed a section of the cave, a 
reduced copy of which is furnished with this note. 
In later years the entrance of this cave has been blocked up, 
but as the writer of this note made a visit to it soon after its 
discovery in company with its first explorers, he is able to de- 
scribe the section, and say something about the features of the 
cave. 
Description of the Cave. 
The entrance is in the form of a low arch, which may be 
noticed in the side of a low limestone ridge, that separates a shal- 
low valley leading up to Dark lake, from the valley of Simond’s 
brook, a small stream that discharges into the St. John river at 
Indiantown. This brook crosses the Sandy Point road a short 
distance below the site of the cave. 
