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which places at present the bars are only of . bare sand submerged, 
at the highest tides. Again, the map of the North Shore made 
b\ Jumeau in 1685, that by Franquelin-DeMeulles made in 1686. 
and that by an unknown surveyor made in 1754,* all show the 
presence of small islands lying off the eastern entrances of both 
Miscou and Shippegan Gullies, where now are nothing but 
shoals. 
While the subsidence of the coast of the province is permitting 
the sea to invade and wash away the land, there are two places 
in which the sea is conspicuously building up the land, aside from 
the familiar cases of sandy points and bars. The one is at the 
Fundy marshes, where the tides are doing the work, and the other 
is at Grande Plaine on Miscou Island, where the sea is rapidly 
building extensive sand plains. At first sight the latter process 
seems to require an elevation rather than a sinking of the coast, 
but there is one fact which proves this not to be the case, namely, 
the inner and older beach lines are, as a rule, lower than the outer 
and newer. There are some exceptions to this, but these arc 
cases complicated, I believe, by dune-drift phenomena. These 
great beaches are being built, apparently, by materials derived 
from the washing away of the coast in the vicinity, and brought 
here by the coastal currents. But the subject is one needing much 
closer study than it has yet received. 
84. — New Aneroid Measurements in New Brunswick in 
1904. 
Read November 1, 1904. 
In July and August last I spent several weeks on the head- 
waters of the Little Southwest Miramichi and Renous rivers, and 
made manv measurements for altitudes with the results that fol- 
low. They were made with excellent aneroids, synchronously 
with the barometric readings of the government stations at Fred- 
ericton and Chatham (from which they have since been checked 
for weather corrections), and with the precautions and correc- 
tions for temperature, index error, etc., described in earlier notes 
* These maps are all given in my Cartography of New Brunswick in the Trans- 
actions of the Royal Society of Canada, Vol. Ill, 1897. 
