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J-V e !,° f folds tren dmg generally from N.E. to S.W. Next 
followed the irruption of great bosses of granite ; after which 
re region was dislocated by powerful faults. The fissures thus 
produced have since been filled with the metallic vdns of the 
Sion Ab r t he 0f the Lower Permian the volcanic 
The Me, d ’ subm ergence began. During the Cretaceous 
K sT. f w m w fe u by a great fault in the direction 
from E.S.E. to W.N.W. On the southern side of this fault the 
rocky mass of the Harz was upheaved to its present height 
Since that date the Harz has not been again submerged, bift it 
has been apparently covered— in part at least— by the «reat ice 
sheet during the greatest intensity of the GlaciaUpoch! 
the work is illustrated with a geological sketch-map of the 
bibliography. 3 SeneS ° f Seaions ’ and is enr iched with a 
Geological and Natural History Survey and Museum of Canada 
A. R. C. Selwyn, F.R.S., F.G.S., Director. Report o 
Progress, 1882, ’83, and ’84. 
This bulky volume comprises, in addition to summary reports on 
the operations of 1883 and 1884, a report on the Geology of the 
country near parallel 49° N., west of the Rocky Mountains, from 
the observations made by H. Bauerman ; a report on the region 
in the vicinity of the Bow and Belly Rivers, in the North-West 
Territory , report on the basin of the Athabasca River ; geolo- 
gical observations in the Saguenay region ; observations on the 
Labrador coast, Hudson s Straits, and Bay ; explorations and 
surveys on the Gaspe Peninsula and Prince Edward Island, and 
a continuation of the survey of the Gaspe Peninsula ; explora- 
tions and surveys of York and Carleton counties, New Bruns- 
wick ; Geology of Northern Cape Breton ; Apatite deposits of 
Ottawa County, Quebec ; gold-mines of Lake of the Woods ; 
observations on mines and minerals in Ontario, Quebec, and 
Nova Scotia; analysis of coals and lignites of the North- 
Western Territory ; and contributions from the Laboratory of 
the Survey. 
The volume has two practical defers : it has no Index, and 
each of the “ Reports ” of which it consists is paged separately. 
