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2nd. A basaltic dyke compact and amygdaloidal. Of this 
we have a vertical and a horizontal section. On either side of this 
dyke the strata are tilted and much contorted. The dyke is 
parted in the middle. On the sides of this parting the rock is 
amygdaloidal. The amygdals are of quartz. The rock appears 
to be a dolerite. On either side between the dyke and the 
strata is a soft tuff. This crystalline rock is unquestionably of 
igneous origin, and it is plainly intrusive. The rock has much 
the appearance of a North Mountain (triassic) trap. I have seen 
no rock like it elsewhere. Queries—When did this, eruption 
occur? It is evidently an occurrence posterior to the meta- 
morphism of the associate strata. Was the eruption in pre- 
middle or post-carboniferous time? Did it happen before the 
formation of the Arthrostauros Godfreyi quartzites and the 
Asaphus ditmarsie iron deposit? Did it occur after the meta- 
morphism of the latter by the dioritic eruptions, and prior to the 
formation of the conglomerates and Chester limestones or other 
deposits of lower carboniferous age, or after, when the auriferous 
rock and associate lower carboniferous conglomerates quartz and 
limestones were brought into their present position ? 
3rd. Grey argillites with quartz veins large and small. 
4th. Black argillites, very pyritous with quartz veins, numer- 
-ous and occasionally of great thickness. 
A black substance like impure graphite occurs in the shaly 
argillites. 
5th. A granitoid hornblendic rock with grey shaly argillite 
-on either side. 
Returning to Yarmouth we took a road that led us to the 
Poor House. Here I examined an imposing outcrop of white 
quartz which had been operated upon by gold hunters. On 
either side of the quartz, which is thirty feet thick, are black ° 
shaly argillites. It is evidently a continuation of one of the 
great veins which I have already referred to as occurring in the 
black argillites of Jebogue Point. 
BEAR RIVER, 
The Hon. L. E. Baker took me to Bear River on the following 
