820 GEOLOGY OF ANTIGONISH COUNTY—HONEYMAN, 
attention on account of their beauty, and supposed adaptability 
to ornamental purposes. Drs. Hunt and How, and Mr. Louis, 
Assoc. Royal School cf Mines, have examined them, and agreed 
that they are hydrous silicates of alumina, and allied to agal- 
matolite, or Chinese Figure Stone. Constituents of this rock 
are segregated in veins in the same way as quartz in the jaspi- 
deous rock of Arisaig Pier. This band precedes A and B of 
Hudson River age. How much, we cannot say. The same may 
be afiirmed of Band No, 6. The associated igneous rocks are an 
extension of those that are found at Malignant Cove, hardening 
and permeating the conglomerates Section III. They have 
sometimes been characterized as augitic, and at other times as 
hornblendic. Microscopie sections of these are described in a 
preceding paper. 
Section IV., from Northumberland Strait to Guysboro’ County 
line along Meridian Long. 60°.—We begin in the metamorphic 
Lower Silurian (2) of Section IIT, one mile west of Livingstone’s 
Cove, and the same distance east of the “Archzean Series.” Cros- 
sing @ mile and two-tenths we reach the carboniferous of Section 
II, z.¢., the north side of the Basin. The rocks upon which we 
have entered extend eastward to St. George’s Bay. Proceeding 
westward they skirt and overlie the Archean series and come up 
against the Arisaig Mountains. Some of them rise to the side of 
the Sugar Loaf (mountain). Proceeding seven miles farther we 
reach the so-called “Morristown Coal Mines.” My attention was 
first directed to this interesting locality in the summer of 1859, 
A specimen of black shiney bituminous shale, which the discov- 
erer supposed to be Albertite, was brought to me in Antigonish 
for examination. Its highly bituminous character excited inter- 
est. I visited the locality and saw a large outcrop of this shale 
associated with a chocolate-coloured shale, which was equally 
bituminous. In the latter I found abundance of scales of 
Paleoniscus and various forms of Lepidodendra, Xe. vide 
Dawson’s Fossil Plants of Canada, Geological Survey of Canada. 
On a subsequent visit I found a section of a cast of a Sigillaria, 
This is from six to ten inches thick and ten inches inches in 
diameter, 
