200 NOVA SCOTIAN GEOLOGY.—HONEYMAN. 
mountains—these have been already referred to as on the south 
of Piedmont valley and the line of railway. The mountains on 
the south are an extension of the strata of Sutherland’s mountain. 
Strata B and B' le between. 
Division 3 extends from French River to the west side of Irish 
Mountain, a distance of twenty-seven and a half miles. Its 
course is 8.55 W. It traverses first an area of Lower Carbon- 
iferous rocks, then the Middle and Upper Silurian of Sutherland’s 
River, McLellan’s Mountain and Brook, and Irish Mountain, ter- 
minating in the Lower Carboniferous of East River. 
The Silurian formation retreats after it reaches the west branch 
of French River, and forms the compound curve which connects 
the Silurian area of the Barney’s and French basins with those 
of East River basin. The connection is very complicated, con- 
sisting of Anticlinals, Synclinals and Monoclinals; yet there 
is no great difficulty experienced in resolving the complications 
in consequence of the constant recurrence of well known charac- 
teristic fossils and obvious structure. Vide Papers in Transae- 
tions 1870-1-2. 
Section 2nd. 
This section begins where the preceding section ends. Di- 
vision No. 1 proceeds 8. 19 E., a distance of 4.5 miles to Fraser’s 
(sadler). Beginning in the Gypsum it passes through the Lower 
Carboniferous to the Limestone of McLean’s Lime Kiln at Spring- 
ville, a little farther it enters D strata, with abundance of char- 
acteristic fossils. At the late Rev. Angus McGillivray’s pasture, it 
enters C strata with fossils characteristic of this horizon. It then 
passes through an obscure region, in which we may presume that 
B’ (Middle Silurian) strata are to be found according to the 
analogy of the preceding section (No. 1), We then come toa 
hill having fossils, which show that C strata have been left be- 
hind. Reaching Fraser’s (sadler) we come to the first discovered 
outcrop of the iron ore of this division, or series, which we would, 
for future reference, name Iron Ore, No. 1. Division No. 2 of 
the section running N. 59 E., 0.6 of a mile, passes through the 
lowest strata of this series, which we shall, in the meantime, 
designate A strata. It then traverses a wide dyke of igneous 
