22, NOVA SCOTIAN GEOLOGY—HONEYMAN. 
1. Pre-carboniferous, 
2. Carboniferous, 
3. Post-carboniferous. 
1. The examinations, as far as made, divided the pre-earboni- 
ferous formations into two areas, viz.: the Wolfville and Kent- 
ville, the two respective starting points of the examinations 
made. 
The Ist area is about 20 square miles in extent. Its N. E. 
corner lies in Wolfville; its N. W. at the entrance of the Deep 
Hollow road. The distance between these two points is 3} 
miles. The 8. EK. corner is at Vaughan’s Mill, Greenfield, on the 
Halfway River, Church’s map. The S. W. corner is at Bezan- 
son’s Mills, on the Black River. The distance between these 
two pcints is about 3 miles. Greenfield is about 5 miles distant 
from Wolfville. The greatest width of the area is about 24 
miles from Wolfville, south, and 5 miles west of the falls of 
Black River, where the pre-carboniferous and carboniferous ap- 
pear in close connection, on the Halfway River road and side of 
the mountain. The rocks in this area are largely obscured, still, 
there are many and interesting exposures around Wolfville and in 
the Deep Hollow road. In certain elevated positions, and in the 
Gaspereaux River, Black River, and Halfway River, the great 
desideratum is the evidence of fossils. None were observed 
in this area although strictly searched for. Lithological evi- 
dence of age and diversity of formation was all that was 
observed. This seemed to divide the rocks into two series. At 
Vaughan’s Mill and Bezanson’s Mill, and on the road interven- 
ing, the exposures seemed to indicate Upper Cambrian age. 
The exposures around Wolfville, the Deep Hollow section, 
and sides of the Gaspereaux River, the Falls of Black River, and 
outcrops farther up the river, seem to indicate another, probably 
Lower Silurian. ; 
The whole aspect of the rocks at Wolfville is so different from 
anything that I had observed elsewhere, that I was altogether 
perplexed. The rocks are Argillites, grey and red, in a state of 
metamorphism more decided than any Middle or Upper Silurian 
in Antigonish, Pictou, or Colehester. They approximate so 
