At the Black Banks: ‘two [fossil] groves of spruce and fir were observed to be buried at different levels {in the peat]'.

/ At one site on the mainland opposite Hog Island: the hardwood forest is on the margin of the salt water [and] the sea has flowed In among the beach, birches and maples’.

The country around Porthill: ‘the lands and timber are excellent; at a short distance from the shore, the surface is covered by a dense wildamess'.

At Low Point: ‘the site of an old French village is 'ncw covered with a thick growth of fir and spruce'. l

'A ridge othigh ground extends from [the area of Crepeud] ’Near the mouth of St. Peters Bay a forest of hardwood, consisting of to New London. it bears thick forests of hardwood'. beech, birch and maple has been overun by the dritting sands'.

’Glasgow River: the elevated n’dges are I covered with majestic forests of hardwoods’. ”’99 ”9°“ ofland "9°" Lots 393 4° and 4’

Egmont Bay: ‘the shores /heve been overun by fires from time to time'.

abound in swamps of ash and .-

[Along] 'the shore westward of Fifiean Point': ‘the low tracts and swamps are covered

by spruce, fir and cedar; wherever the land is dry there are fine groves of hardwood’. V\

Miscouche: 'the quantity of cedar increases towards the north '.

‘ From Montague River to Georgetown: ’some extensive gravelly beds are covered by beautiful forests of hardwood'.

e— Murrey Harbour: ’Fires have committed A great ravages among the timber‘.

'The fine forests of hardwood have been chiefly cleared, and where the land is not cultivated, the birch and maple have been succeeded by groves of spruce and fir'.

At Gallows Paint: 'a submerged forest [in which] upwards of three acres are occupied by stumps and roots of the spruce, fir and hemlock’.

’Bumt Woods: covered with charred stumps and windfalls’.

FIGURE 6. All of the geographically-locatable forest descriptions of Gesner (1846).

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