NOVA SCOTIAN GEOLOGY—HONEYMAN. 237 
Coming to Lake George I could not find any rocks outcrop- 
ing. I had therefore to have recourse to stones scattered around 
and collected into heaps. Among these I found abundance of 
mica schist stones replete with garnets, generally small like those 
of the sand that I had seen. Sometimes, however, stones were 
found having common garnets of large size. One specimen of 
rock that I picked up is a most beautiful cabinet specimen. In 
it the garnets are pretty large; one side is light colored and 
shows the numerous garnets in relief to great advantage ; the 
other side is dark micaceous schist with numerous rubbed 
garnets. 
We called upon Mr. Winter, who is said to be the best in- 
formed, relating the place of occurrence of the sand in question. 
He had a number of barrels filled with the sand, which I ex- 
amined with interest. According to his account the places on 
the shore where the sand occurs are increasing in number; none 
of them are of easy access so that we did not see them. 
There can be no doubt that garnetiferous mica schists are the 
chief rocks of the lake, and that the sand is their debris. The 
lake is large and is frequently agitated by great storms, so that. 
the debris accumulates rapidly. The specific gravity of the gar-: 
nets is greater than that of the mica or quartz, and therefore the 
garnets are separated readily from the debris and sorted by the 
action of the water. a re 
Artificial stone has been made with the garnet sand. It is 
said to be beautiful. 
Masses of brownish crypto crystalline quartzite are found scat- 
_tered about the lake. There are quartz veins in these which are 
hardly distinguished from the rock. Hornblendic rocks of a 
peculiar character are also represented by masses. Some of these 
are very hornblendic, hard and tough; others are horblendic- 
micaceous-schists, having the crystals of hornblende singularly 
arranged in stellar and plumose forms. 
On our return to Yarmouth we passed over outcrops of rocks 
of the railway and harbour. © 
| HARBOUR. 
I examined the rocks of the harbour, accompanied b 
