NOVA SCOTIAN GEOLOGY—HONEYMAN. 55 
of the same metamorphosing influence, hence the whole complex 
system was named Archzeo-Cambro-Silurian (lower). In my 
paper, on the Geology of Nictaux, I showed that Geologists had 
heretofore been mistaken in regarding certain strata as of Devon- 
ian age on supposed paleontological evidence. Those views as I 
have subsequently shown, were confirmed by the paleontological 
evidence of the Digby cognate formation, which had rightly been 
regarded as equivalent to that of Nictaux. I also showed that 
the Middle and Lower Silurian, fossiliferous-strata of Nictaux had 
not been affected by the wnderlying granite. I showed that the 
gneisses, which seemed to have been affected by the granite, be- 
longed to an entirely different series of rocks, in short, that the 
eranite and associated metamorphic gneissoid rocks were Archxo- 
Cambre-Silurian (lower) and a continuation of the Yarmouth 
Series. 
In my paper “On Metalliferous Sands,” read last session, I 
showed the correspondence of auriferous rocks in Wyoming, in 
lithology and minerals, with our own auriferous and the virtual 
coincidence of age. The only difference is that the Wyoming 
rocks are regarded as Huronian, and therefore Archzan. As our 
Cambrian is on the border of Azoic, with only doubtful life, 
there seems to be no formidable obstacle in the way of regarding 
our gold fields as closely Archean. However, in the meantime 
we may characterize our gold fields as Archzo-Cambro-Silurian 
<lower.) 
While I consider that we have little (if any) interval or 
break between the auriferous and succeeding formations, in 
Annapolis, Digby and Kings Counties, the case is much different 
in Halifax and Colchester. This will be seen by referring to 
sections “A,” “B” and “C.” ‘It will be there observed that the 
Archzo-Cambro-Silurian (lower) is succeeded by the Lower Carbo- 
niferous. If one were thus to infer the age of the former from 
that of the latter, it would be concluded to be of Devonian age. 
This irregular sequence, and the want of distinct fossiliferous 
evidence, has always been a difficulty in the way of the satisfac- 
tory correlation of the formation of our gold fields. In my 
paper read before the Geological Society of 1862, I illustrated 
the geology of the gold fields by an examination of the railway 
