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MUSEUM BULLETIN NO. 2. 
writings on the botany, physiography, cartography, and history 
of New Brunswick constitute a most valuable guide in that 
Province for the naturalist, the antiquarian, and the traveller; 
and who kindly suggested to me, in personal correspondence, 
several localities particularly worth visiting, in my search for 
evidences of modern coastal subsidence. 
MODERN VERSUS LATE PLEISTOCENE MOVE- 
MENTS. 
The elevated beaches, deltas, and sea-floor deposits which are 
found along the coast of the Maritime Provinces bear witness 
to a differential emergence of this region from the sea, in post- 
Glacial time. Judging from the strength of certain strands, 
especially along the north coast of Gaspe peninsula, this emer- 
gence was not steady, but consisted of two or three periods of 
uplift, separated by periods of stability or of subsidence. In the 
lower Saint Lawrence, one shore-line, in particular, which forms 
a wide shelf only twenty feet above the modern sea-level, and a 
great sea-cliff, records an interval of stability or of subsidence 
which must have lasted for a considerable length of time, and 
was followed by an uplift of approximately twenty feet . 1 Recent 
observations around the coast of Gaspe peninsula point to the 
probability that this recent upward movement of the lower 
Saint Lawrence region was attended by a downward movement 
of the more southerly coast of Gaspe and New Brunswick. 
It is not known whether the upward movement is still in progress 
along the lower Saint Lawrence, or not. From New Brunswick, 
however, a number of phenomena have been adduced as evi- 
dence that the more southerly coast is still subsiding. That 
there has been coastal subsidence, locally, if not over a wide 
region, since the last Glacial epoch, and presumably since the 
great Champlain emergence, is shown by the famous submerged 
forest at Fort Lawrence, Nova Scotia. The supposed evidences 
of a modern continuance of the subsidence, however, are open to 
question. On this account, it is important to discriminate 
1 J. W. Goldthwait; The twenty-foot terrace and sea-cliff of the Lower Saint 
Lawrence, Amer. Journ. Sci., vol. XXXII, 1911, pp. 291-317. 
