NOVA SCOTIAN GEOLOGY.—HONEYMAN. 195 
Barney’s River. I have already incidentally referred to some of 
the rocks of this section. Having recently made a thorough ex- 
amination of the Basin of Barney’s River, I shall give the results. 
Traversing the line of railway, I was led to make Dewar's 
Furniture Factory siding my halting place. Here I was kindly 
welcomed and hospitably entertained by the proprietor of the 
Wactory. Examining the dam and race which are situate on the 
west branch of Barney’s River, I was interested to find stilurian 
strata where J had expected to find Carboniferous rocks. From 
cursory observations J had been led to infer that this was a Car- 
boniferous area, and that the Silurian of the east was bounded 
by the eastern branch of the River. I had supposed Cameron’s 
mountain which was on the right of the road entering the Marshy 
Hope, which is formed of lower carboniferous conglomerate, to be 
2 continuation of the carbonigerous mountains which run on the 
south of Piedmont Valley. I had also supposed that the Middle 
Silurian strata (A) which occur on the left side of the same 
road was a continuation of other strata, eccurring in the Marshy 
Hope at the county line. See the railway traverse proceeding. 
Accompanied by A. Dewar, I examined the fields to the south 
of the factory cnward to the New Glasgow and Antigonish road 
in search of the supposed connection of the Carboniferous Moun- 
tains without success. We thenobserved Silurian strata in the mid- 
dle branch, which led us to fellow its course northward to the 
railway bridge. We found Middle Silurian strata (B) all the 
way, and, therefore, no connection between the Marshy Hope 
Carboniferous Mountain and the Mountains of the west. We 
then ascended McPhee’s Mountain on the north side of the en- 
trance of the Marshy Hope and found that it also was formed of 
Lower Carboniferous Conglomerate, like Cameron’s, on the south. 
We afterward examined rocks in.the east branch of Barney’s 
River and found that they were the connection between the two 
mountains, being also conglomerates with the addition of igne- 
ous rocks. The latter were found to occupy a central position, by 
comparison with the other passage conglomerate outcroppings on 
the road. The continuation of these mountains on the north 
«was also found to be of Lower Carboniferous age, Cameron’s moun- 
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