166 GEOLOGICAL NOTES—HONEYMAN. 
auspices and brightest prospects. As we cherish these and apply 
to them our powers of body and mind, so shall we aid the 
accomplishment of our destiny and become at length what God 
and nature have manifestly designed us to be—the chief nation 
of the western hemisphere, perhaps the leading nation of the 
world. 
Art. I]. —GEroLocicaL Notes oF ExcuRSIONS WITH MEMBERS 
OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION, AND OTHERS. By 
Rev. D. HonryMaAn, D.C.L., F.R.S.C., F.S.A., &e 
Jurator of the Provincial Musewm. 
(Read December 8, 1884.) 
WHEN accompanying our visitors of the British Association, I 
made several observations which seem worthy of record. 
JOGGINS SECTION. 
We first examined the South Joggins Section—the middle 
carboniferous division. This section is always interesting, as 
every season makes a renovation. We were, however, too late. 
Any fossil trees which had been exposed in the early part of the 
season, had been removed by Mr. Barnhill and others. <A part 
that is always striking had thus disappeared. Interesting speci- 
mens of stigmariae, with rootlets, lepidodendra, sigillaria and 
calamites, were observed among the debris of the cliffs and in 
the ledges. Seams of coal and shales with anthracosia and 
entomostraca were also examined and specimens collected. 
Want of time prevented us from visiting aud examining the 
erindstone grits of Lower Cove. 
Interesting sections of trees, sigillaria and lepidodendra, were 
also examined at the Superintendent’s residence, with small col- 
lections of fossils, containing large scales of rhizodus and other 
ganoids, with ferns and other flora. These had been secured by 
Prof. Richards, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
SPRING HILL AND PARRSBORO’ RAILWAY. 
Beginning at the Springhill Mines Station, we were in the 
