240 NOVA SCOTIAN GEOLOGY—HONEYMAN. 
attention. When I was examining the interval between the 
cove rocks and the black pyritous argillites, I observed a singu- 
lar section which occupies a large part of the obscure interval ; 
on the north side of this, next the flats of Cape Cove, the soil is 
underlaid by a coarse ferruginous gravel. It then becomes 
more compact, cemented by iron oxide it becomes conglomerate, 
erit and breccia, arranged in beach form. It is then seen over- 
lying unconformably the black pyritous argillites at a considerable 
height, and with a northerly dip. The greater part of these is 
derived from the black argillite which supplies rock material 
and iron cement. A small stream of water flows down the face 
of the highest part of the section—chalybeate water. I recognised 
the strata of the section as a counterpart of the carboniferous, 
auriferous, conglomerates and breccias of Gay’s River, Colches- 
ter County. This section fills up about a third of the interval. 
How far this formation extends inland cannot be ascertained 
except by sinking or boring. 
We have thus three formations meeting or nearly so in this 
locality, which is distant 5 miles from Beaver River and county 
line. I have thus added to the geological formations of Digby 
County a carboniferous formation, and 5 miles of auriferous 
formation. 
SALMON RIVER. 
Returning we observed an outcrop of grey slates on the road 
side, about opposite the point on the shore referred to when ex- 
amining the sections of black slates. Near Salmon River we 
directed our course to the shore for the purpose of examining the 
southern extension of the preceding section. Here I was grati- 
fied by finding great ledges of rocks, solid grey quartzites having 
pyrite in large crystals, the exact counterpart of the Bedford 
Basin quartzites, Halifax County. Towards the point referred 
to, the quartzites become less solid and are succeeded by grey 
argillites. These in turn are succeeded by Deveu’s black argillites. 
Considering the grey quartzites with the argillites of the railway 
section, to be an extension of the shore section grey quartzites 
and argillites, south of the point south of Cape Cove, it seems 
to require the grey argillites extending northward beyond th: 
