OF DYNAMICAL GEOLOGY—BAILEY. 185 
It is not probable, in any of the cases above cited, that the 
distance of boulder travel has been great, the rocks being 
similar in nature to those occurring 77 situ at points not widely 
removed. Of true erratics, or long distance boulders, the most 
noticeable, perhaps, was one of dark grey felsite-conglomerate, 
seen in Tiverton, near the middle of Petite Passage, and probably 
not more than 20 or 30 feet above the level of the tide. No 
rock of this character has yet been observed in south-western Nova 
Scotia, but it is common in southern New Brunswick, whence 
in all probability it was derived. Granite boulders were also 
observed in this vicinity, as well as on Briar Island. which may 
also have come across the Bay, though possibly derived from the 
granite of the Blue Mountains in Nova Scotia, some 40 miles 
distant. Boulders of the traps of Digby Neck are occasionally 
met with over all the south-western counties, even as far as the 
Atlantic shore. 
Of ordinary terminal Moraines, the interior of Queen’s, Shel- 
burne, and Yarmouth Counties affords many examples, and to 
their presence and influence many features in the drainage of 
the country are no doubt due. The headwaters of the Part 
Medway, Liverpool, Jordan, and other rivers may be cited in 
illustration. In a similar way some of the islands off the coast, 
and particularly those which, in such large numbers, dot the 
surface of Tusket Inlet, are, in all probability, of morainie origin. 
In addition to moraines, the peculiar accumulations known 
as Hames or “ Hovse-backs,’ are abundant in south-western Nova 
Scotia, and are, in some instances, of remarkable character. A 
ridge, which is probably of this nature, crosses the Liverpool and 
Annapolis road in the northern part of Maitland Settlement, 
whence it was followed by W. H. Prest in a direction E. or ENE., 
across the Maitland River to Gull Lake, and then northerly, by 
Gull Lake Stream, to the south of Perrot’s Settlement, while in 
the opposite, or westerly direction, it was similarly followed, 
westerly or west by south, by way of Long Lake to Frozen 
Ocean, finally crossing into Digby County, south of the Sissaboo. 
A peculiarity in this case is that, while consisting, like other 
