26 NOVA SCOTIAN GEOLOGY—HONEYMAN. 
Diorites noticed are regarded like the Nictaux Division, as of 
Devonian age. 
2. Carboniferous——The carboniferous area of this county is 
about 25 square miles in extent. Its first appearance on the 
west is at Wolfville, where it is found overlying rocks of the 
pre-carboniferous area. Its next appearance is at the back of 
Wolfville where it is well seen on the road to Gaspereaux and in 
an adjoining hollow. The strata here are very coarse grits, 
overlying the pre-carboniferous argillites. It next appears in 
the Gaspereaux River at the bridge adjoining pre-carboniferous 
rocks. J have already noticed its next appearance on the moun- 
tain road, where the rocks are coarse grits overlying pre-carboni- 
ferous argillites. Its next appearance is at Willet’s Mill, where 
the pre-carboniferous strata are observed. It is thus only seen 
in contact with the Wolfville series. On the old mountain road 
sandstones have already been observed. Geologically higher than 
the strata in contact. These show the formation to be carboni- 
ferous by the debris of fossil flora. Higher in the area outcrops 
of grits and sandstones are of frequent occurrence and sandstones 
extensive, but uninteresting. When we reach within a mile of 
the shore of the estuary of the Avon, outcrops of black shales 
appear, and on the shore about five miles distant from the june- 
tion of the pre-carboniferous and carboniferous, there is a magnifi- 
cent section—Horton Bluff and Blue Beech. This section is lofty 
and extensive, in common with sections on the Minas Basin shores, 
it is sharp and comparatively free of debris. Here I found sand- 
stones with matted kelp surface. Clay-ironstone and abund- 
ance of beautifully shaped Septaria, Fossil Flora, Lepidodendra 
and Stigmaria and Sporangites, Fauna, Reptilian footprints, 
scales and teeth of Palwoniscus, and a half of the lower jaw of . 
Palewoniscus with teeth in place. No carboniferous strata were 
observed west of the point indicated at Wolfville. Still itis pos- 
sible that concealed or overlapped strata may exist in the valley. 
During the Carboniferous period there was no North Mountain or 
Blomidon narrowing the Bay of Fundy. It then extended as far as 
the Wolfville, Kentville and Nictaux pre-carboniferous, or nearly 
so. Conditions similar to those now existing in the Bay of 
