GEOLOGY OF ANTIGONISH COUNTY—HONEYMAN. 313 
iron tubing. At a certain depth in the soil and clay, he entered 
gypsum. He came to sandstone without finding any indication 
of brine, and concluded that further operation in this locality 
was useless.” This was his first boring. Baek from this, nearer 
the mountain, gypsum is seen rising to a height of fifty feet. I 
would here remark that all these altitudes are taken from the 
Admiralty Chart of Antigonish harbour. After another inter- 
ruption, they re-appear, having the same height, advance to 
the road, where they are cut off by it; disappear again, pits 
only showing their existence underneath, and re-appear on St. 
George’s Bay. The mountains come forward at the same time 
and end near the road. The termination of the gypsums is 
shown as it was 25 years ago in“Acadian Geology.” By the 
constant undermining process going on, the once picturesque pro- 
minence has been sadly reduced, and almost destroyed. This is 
the other corner of the “north side of the southern ecarboniferous, 
area of the County. The rocks “consist of conglomerate, breccia, 
sandstone and limestone, partly covered by a great bed of drift, 
containing and discharging large boulders on the shore of 
strikinely characteristic rocks of the Lower Arisaig (Archean) 
series of Northumberland Strait.” In the limestones there 
is a cave, where ice can be had at any time. Every variety 
of gypsum, selenite, fibrous, soft, anhydrous and red, occur in 
this section. At Mcfsaac’s Brook there is a low lying outerop 
of slates and igneous rocks. This is the extension of the moun- 
tain series north of the “Sugar-loaf.” Continuing the section, 
we come to Cribbean’s Head. Here is a large exposure of Lower 
Carboniferous strata containing casts of trees and calamites. 
This is on the south corner of the northern carboniferous area. 
Beyond this are Morristown Lakes, obscurity, or rocks without 
anything of sp-cial interest, until we reach Sinclair’s Brook. 
Here are sandstones with flora, casts of lepidodendra. Farther 
on are sandstones, grits and conglomerates. In the sandstones I 
found scales of Palewoniscus and casts of sun-cracks. The con- 
glomerates constitute Cape St. George and its ledges. These 
rocks belong to the north side of the carboniferous area. 
Section III., on Northumberland Strait, from Cape St, 
