176 The American Geologist. March, \mi 
Notes oil the glacial (/eoJotiy of the Nort/wast Territories. By 
A. P. Low. A large region reaching from Hudson bay south- 
eastward to lakes Nistassini and St. John was described in this 
papei-. The interior of the country east of Hudson bay is mostly 
1,50U to 2,000 feet above the sea, being a moderately hilly 
Archaean plateau, more or less covered with drift and commonly 
sprinkled with innumeraljle boulders. All the drift and courses 
of striation are explainable b}' the action of land-ice, which 
flowed outward to the west, south, and east from the watershed 
that divides the streams tributary respectively to Hudson bay 
and the Atlantic. The material of the drift is mainly of local 
origin, but some boulders are known to have been transported 
200 miles. 
A chain of islands extending from south to north in the east 
part of James bay is a terminal moraine. These islands are un- 
stratified drift, rising to maximum hights of 150 to 200 feet. 
They were submerged for some time after their accumulation, for 
fossil marine shells are found in stratified beds overlying the till 
along the rivers flowing into the east side of Hudson and James- 
bays to a distance of 40 miles inland, and the continuation of 
these deposits rises to an altitude of 070 feet. The ice-sheet here 
was probably thicker, and the Champlain submergence greater, 
than on the Labrador coast. 
T/ie It! gilt of till' Bay of Fundi/ coast in tin' Glacial Period rela- 
tive to sea, level, as evidenced hy marine fossils in the boulder clay 
at Saint John, Ncir Brunswick. By Robert Chalmers. Close 
west of the harbor of St. John, N. E., the boulder clay or till 
encloses layers of stratified clay which hold marine shells. The 
till rises 40 to GO feet above the sea and forms a tract about a 
half mile wide, overlapped on its borders by Leda clay and Saxi- 
cava sand. On the adjacent and underlying rock surface inter- 
secting glacial stria? bear S. to S. ()5° E., referred to the astro- 
nomic meridian. Directly north of this place are the rock hills 
known as Carleton hights, on which the striation bears S. 2° E. 
and S. l(j° W. The materials forming the boulder cla}' came 
from rock outcrops on the north. Boulders are plentiful up to 
S or 10 feet in diameter. The upper part of the till is less com- 
pact than the lower, and landslips are frequent. Several sections 
of the till were described in detail, showing that it encloses thin 
layers of clay and sand with niany shells of Yoldia {Leda) 
