40 GLACIAL TRANSPORTATION—HONEYMAN. 
BOULDERS. 
On New Year’s day, Mr. NoLAN, whose name has already 
been mentioned in connection with Observatory Hill, H. M. 
Dockyard, showed me a boulder broken into four pieces, as some- 
thing interesting. The boulder is of triassic amygdaloid. Its 
colour is gray, its amygdals are numerous; their minerals are 
heulandite and stilbite. It is altogether a striking specimen. 
The piece in my possession weighs 12? lbs. The weight of the 
whole seems to have been about 25 lbs. It has been an associate of 
Observatory Hill amygdaloid boulders referred to in a preceding 
paper. Its character is unmistakable. The North Mountain, 
Blomidon and Five Island rocks are the only series in British 
America that could produce it. The striation in the vicinity of 
the Dockyard points to Blomidon as the locality whence it came, 
I have already referred to rocks of Blomidon as similar to our 
boulder. I have no hesitation in affirming that this boulder 
and its associates have travelled over-land from Blomidon, a 
distance of 64 miles. While I believe this, I can excuse the 
incredulity of those who are not educated to appreciate the 
convincing nature of the evidence upon which my faith is 
founded. As I survey the present appearance of the way over 
which ‘our boulder has travelled, its transit appears to be an 
evident impossibility. To prepare a way for its passage, we 
assume that there are heights, hollows and dead level, where 
in pre-glacial times there was necessary altitudes and more or 
less incline. To restore this state of things I made two postu- 
lates: Ist. That all the boulders and rock detritus which were 
carried from their original position and cast into the Atlantic, or 
seattered broadcast as we have found them over the length and 
breadth of the Province, should be restored to their pre-glacial 
position. 2nd. That the action of post glacial agencies should 
-be anntilled. We can then see in the visions of the past a great 
highway over which special agencies of speculative character 
advance, it may be slowly but surely, and irresistibly in a S. E. 
direction, accumulating freight in their progress and discharging 
it into the Atlantic. Then in process of time the same agencies 
