NOVA SCOTIAN GEOLOGY—HONEYMAN. 27 
Fundy seem then to have prevailed. Conditions rather favour- 
able to the denudation of shores, than for the accumulation of 
littoral deposits. The first littoral check given to the sweep of 
the waters seems to have been the pre-carboniferous rocks of 
Wolfville, which seem to have been a cape of the Carboniferous 
period. This seems to have been favourable to a coarse sandy 
accumulation (Grit), while at the same time the Cobequids had a 
shingle forming shore (Conglomerate). 
3. Post Carboniferous.—Triassic Sandstones, &e., occupy the 
area north of the pre-carboniferous from Wolfville westward. 
They are first observed at the united corner of the Carboniferous 
area. Here they are seen overlying the carboniferous strata, at 
no great distance they are then seen at Jessup’s; directly overly- 
ing pre-carboniferous argillites without the intervention of the 
carboniferous. These overlying strata are loose and incoherent, 
wanting the compactness of the carboniferous strata, and not 
much different in appearance from banks of drift. At Hlderkin 
Brook, near Kentville, a fine section is seen on the site of a saw- 
mill. On the west side of the Dam up Kentville Brook a fine 
exposure is seen of the same formation, overlying the ochreous 
and copper coloured slates described in this locality. They re- 
appear up the Brook at the Shooting Range, and make an occasion- 
al appearance as far up as the mouth of the Webster Falls tributary. 
At Elderkin Brook they appear in their characteristic manner, soft, 
sandy strata of decided red colour. The east side of the area is 
beautifully exposed in sharp and clean sections from Starr's 
Point onward to the extremity of Blomidon. The north side is 
seen rising to the brow of North Mountain and terminating with 
Blomidon on the east (apparently). In this area conglomerates 
similar to the lower beds of the Cobequid Triassic do not appear, 
and the compactness of bedding which make the sandstones of 
the latter available for building purposes, is notably wanting. 
At Starr’s point the beds contain veins of calcareous spar, some 
of these are of considerable thickness. Crystals are of suffi- 
cient size and transparency to shew the phenomena of double 
refraction. At Blomidon foot were observed considerable masses 
of selenite and fibrous gypsum dislodged from the Triassic 
