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NOVA SCOTIAN GEOLOGY—HONEYMAN. 53 
eastern side of Colchester is in 62 deg. 47 min. The southern 
line of Halifax County is the Atlantic Coast. It is bounded on 
the north by the counties of Hants, Colchester and Guysboro’. 
A large part of the County of Colchester, which includes part of 
the Cobequid Mountains, is separated from the County of Halifax 
by the County of Hants. In this Paper, Parts I., II. and III, I 
intend to confine attention chiefly to the parts of Halifax and 
Colchester included between the meridians 62 deg. 55 min. and 
63 deg. 41 min. 
To the Geology of this region I have devoted considerable 
attention during the past 20 years. The results of my first work 
were communicated to the Geological Society of London during 
the time of the London Exhibition of 1862, by request of the 
Nova Scotia Commission. Quarterly Journal of G.S., 1862. Paper 
“On the Nova Scotia Gold Fields.” The results of an examination 
of the Gays River Gold Field, were communicated to the Institute 
in 1866, Transactions. When I read my Paper “On the Geology 
of Nictaux, Annapolis Co.,” to the Institute on Nov. 12, 1877, 
my new views on the Geology of Nictaux suggested and was 
followed by the reading of a paper “On the Geology of Halifax 
County.” The latter Paper was not printed, as I considered it 
proper to defer the publication of views advanced on the age and 
foreign relations of certain formations, until I had further investi- 
gated the character and relations of the Nictaux formations. 
Since then I have investigated these formations thoroughly and 
communicated the results to the Institute in a series of Papers. 
I have also investigated thoroughly the Geology of the region 
now about to be examined. I have already, in three Papers, tra- 
versed the same field, vide Papers on the “Superficial Geology 
of Halifax and Colchester Counties.” Localities and names to 
which I may now refer may be presumed to be familiar. 
SECTIONS. 
I would define the general geology in three transverse sections 
following certain meridians of longitude, so that each can easily 
be located on any map of Nova Scotia. The map on which I 
have already defined my work is Mackinlay’s Map, Geologically 
coloured, which I exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition, Phila., 
1876, and the Nova Scotia Government departments of the 
Dominien Exhibitions, in Halifax 1881, and Kingston 1882. 
