GEOLOGY OF ANTIGONISH COUNTY—HONEYMAN. obi 
also overlies conglomerates. | We have already parted with the 
mountain metamorphic rocks, and come to a break between the 
two mountain ranges. This break is occupied by rocks of the 
two carboniferous areas of the County,—conglomerates, grits. 
A quarry of the latter in the so called “ Yankee grant,” furnished 
the other building stone of the cathedral. Still proceeding, we 
have the gypsuins on the right and another brook, Braley Brook , 
having turned away from our course. On the left side of this 
brook we have another limestone quarry, with brown ochre. 
Still further, we pass into conglomerates, and cross Right’s River 
above the factory. Below it is a bluff of conglomerates, with 
the gypsums outcroppmg on the side of the river. Crossing the 
intervale, we come to the railway station at Antigonish. This is 
also the site of the “Old Salt Works.” In my paper “On the 
Geology of Antigonish County’—Vide transactions of the Insti- 
tute of Natural Science, 1866—I made mention of the salt pond 
in the Town and salt springs in the County. In my recent 
paper “On the Geology of Antigonish County,” Trans. I. N.S., 
1875, is a “History of the Salt Works.” Extract: “Mr. Deacon 
next operated on the intervale below the town, not far from the 
confluence of Right’s River, Braley Brook and West River. 
Here, after passing through a considerable thickness of clay, 
impregnated with salt, he came to gypsum. In this the boring 
was so dry that it was difficult to work ; suddenly the bore-hole 
was found to be filled to some distance from the top. Mr. Deacon 
was in transports when he found that the fluid was brine. 
Notwithstanding vigorous pumping, the brine kept up to the 
mark, with a great discharge of sulphuretted hydrogen. Being 
now very sanguine in his expectations, he had a steam engine 
erected for pumping, and furnaces, tanks and evaporating pans 
of large dimensions constructed for the production of salt. After 
the manufacture of a considerable quantity of salt, the strength 
of the brine became very much reduced. He accordingly com- 
menced another boring at a point near to the evaporating build- 
ing; after boring through clays, impregnated with salt to a depth 
of 65C feet, without finding any indications of brine, that of 
the other boring becoming too weak for use, and the working 
capital exhausted, the work was abandoned.” 
