188 SOME NOVA SCOTIAN ILLUSTRATIONS 
northward to Port Maitland, and again between Cape St. Mary 
and Meteghan. All along this coast the strava are thrown into a 
series of short folds, usually oblique to the coast line, and are 
broken by numerous faults. To the north of Cape St. Mary Light, 
the shore is especially high and bold, presenting an almost 
endless variety of craggy precipices, overhanging bluffs, caves 
and “ stacks,” the latter sometimes of grotesque outline. There 
is seldom any beach, or any safe means of ascent or descent, so 
that any examination of the section must be made by boat, and 
even this method is possible only in the calmest weather. The 
views afforded, however, and the instruction to be gained, are 
well worth some little risk. 
Among other incidents of marine erosion may be mentioned 
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here the occurrence of some noticeable “spouting horns” near 
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the extremity of Western Head, near Lockeport. 
Besides the examples of folded rocks and of erosion to be 
found along the coast are those afforded by the rivers and streams 
of the interior. Of these in Queen’s County one of the best is 
that of the Port Medway; in Yarmouth County, the Tusket ; 
and in Digby County, the Sissaboo or Weymouth River. The 
section afforded by the latter is especially interesting for its 
variety and completeness, and as affording a key to the structure 
of a large part of this county. So also are the sections afforded 
by the Grand Joggins, Bear River, Moore River, and Deep Creek, 
on the south side of Annapolis Basin, as well as by the 
several smaller creeks emptying into the same sheet of water. 
In a single railway cutting, near the mouth of Bear River, may 
be counted not Jess than fourteen small folds, and as many as 
six faults. 
At the head of St. Mary’s Bay, and adjoining the so-called 
“Sea Wall,” is a fine example of a monoclinal block, the red 
sandstones, of probable Triassic age, here forming a series of 
very picturesque vertical bluffs, rising to a maximum of a 
hundred feet, with a regular but low inclination northward, and 
affording many curious instances of marine sculpture in com- 
paratively soft beds. 
