Jb NOVA SCOTIAN GEOLOGY—HONEYMAN. 
sections, especially from the Windsor Junction to Windsor, in 
connection with the Waverley gold fields and its barrel quartz. 
(Vide paper [with illustration] in “Quarterly Journal,” 1862.) 
I reasoned thus: The rocks are widely different from any mem- 
ber of the Arisaig series, at Arisaig, or elsewhere, in the eastern 
part of the Province, which ranges from the Devonian to the 
Middle Silurian. They are extremely metamorphic, more so 
than any of the preceding. Gold has now been found in them 
in sufficient quantities to be of economic importance. These 
considerations seem to warrant the conclusion that the formation 
in question is Lower Silurian. The author of “Acadian Geology” 
had, on other considerations, come to the same conclusions. In 
the discussion that followed the reading of my paper, two 
eminent geologists, only, took a part. The one considered the 
rocks of our gold fields to be of Devonian age, the other agreed 
with me in the views that I had taken. In a subsequent 
conversation which I had with the former, the granites, were 
referred to, which had been noticed as occurring at Mount 
Uniacke, but had not been taken into account in the discussion. 
It was then agreed that they were of igneous origin, and might 
be of Devonian or any age. 
Among all the interesting exhibits of gold at the London 
Exhibition of 1862, there was one which was to me peculiarly 
interesting. This collection stood at the entrance to the Eastern 
Annex, in which was the wondrous economic mineral display of 
Great Britain. The exhibit was from the Dolgelly gold field in 
North Wales. Here were a magnificent bar of gold, rock speci- 
mens and gold in its matrix. Accompanying this was a map by 
Mr. T. A. REApwIN. A. pamphlet was distributed, entitled, 
“Notes explanatory of a map of the faults of the Dolgelly Gold 
District, undertaken for Mr. T. A. READWIN, by J. W. SALTER, 
F.G.S., &e.” I was fortunate to secure a copy of this pamphlet,” 
which I have carefully preserved as a memento of pleasant 
intercourse had with its illustrious author, and pleasant walks 
among the various departments of the exhibition, where any 
thing relating to “Silurian” was to be found. I looked upon 
this gold collection as intimately related to that of the gold 
fields from Nova Scotia, although there seemed to be a difference 
