XVi PROCEEDINGS. 
studied the country to the west of the Nictaux as far as Jones’ Brook, and 
to the east as far as Tor Brook. The iron strata at Cleveland appear to 
show themselves to the south-west near Jones’ Brook over two miles dis- 
tant and beyond the mile belt of intrusive granite. To the north-east of 
Cleveland, for a distance of four miles, there are several outcrops of 
probably the same strata, the iron of which is hematitic instead of mag- 
netic. At the north-eastern end of this line which runs parallel with the 
course of the Tor Brook for over two miles, are the Tor Brook Mines, 
where a large quantity of valuable hematite was being mined. This iron 
belt then appears to be at least six miles long, cutting the general mag- 
netic north and south course of the Nictaux at Cleveland, as a line 
running from the south-west (declining to the west) two miles across 
the granite ridge referred to, to Tor brook, four miles to the north-east, 
Allusion was made to the interesting character of the geological 
problem, to which our two greatest geologists have been giving different 
solutions. Sir Wm. Dawson thought the palaeontology of the iron beds 
would place them as high as the Oriskany, the base of the Devonian, and 
therefore higher than the rocks near the Nictaux Falls which might be 
Lower Helderberg and Niagara (Upper Silurian). Dr. Honeyman would 
as low as the Clinton if 
put the iron beds lower even than the Niagara 
not the Medina. Collections of fossils were made at various points which 
had not then been examined, so that he would not venture to say whether 
later observations would justify any radical modification of the earlier 
hypothesis or not. The railway cuttings as well as mining explorations 
made in late years give geologists much better facilities for the complete 
study of the problem. But with all the new facilities the original hypo- 
thesis does not appear to be substantially disproved. 
Observations were also made on surface geology. Glacial erosion 
was widely exhibited, and in at least one section of a drift bank cut by 
the railway there was evidence of an older drift from north to south, as 
well as a later from south to north, down the slope of the land to the 
Annapolis Valley. 
Firra Orpinary MEEtinG. 
Church of England Institute, Halifax, 11th March, 1895. 
The PreEstDEntT in the chair. 
It was reported that Miss Berroa Evxiot, Superintendent of Nurses, 
Victoria General Hospital, had been elected an ordinary member, and S. 
