242 NOVA SCOTIAN GEOLOGY—HONEYMAN. 
men strikingly resembles a museum specimen of stromatopora 
sp, from the Niagara limestones of Baie de Chaleurs, New 
Brunswick. The specimen is not a cast. The organism, if it 
was one, has been replaced by quartzose material so as to pre- 
serve the form. The specimen may only represent a certain 
rock structure ; if so it illustrates the possibility of a striking 
imitation of organic structure being only rock structure. I give 
the specimen the name Stromatoporoid, sp. 
Several of the grey quartzite strata which are overlaid by the 
shaly argillites have had their faces partially exposed. These 
look so like fossiliferous rocks that I was led to search in them 
for fossils. I succeeded in finding in one of the quartzite strata 
peculiar forms which were certainly made by organisms. In 
shape they are discoid and eliptical. One specimen which I 
succeeded in securing is oval with an interior depression. The on- 
ly thing that can compare with them are roots of Buthotrephis— 
Hall’s Palaeontology of New York, vol. 2, plates 7, fig’s 2, 6, 10, 
fig’s 9, 10. It is certainly interesting to find such forms in prox- 
imity to gold producing strata. Proceeding I found next an 
enormous exposure of erystalline rocks—diorites. These are of 
a character different from the diorites of Cape Cove. Like the 
porphyrite of Sunday Point the diorite here is very micaceous. 
Crossing this enormous outcrop of diorites I came te another 
great exposure of grey quartzites, and reached the Creaim-Pot 
with the auriferous quartz of the gold mine. 
CREAM- Pot. 
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Is so called as the sea is said, in violent storms, to fill the 
recess with froth. This pot is geologically interesting. The 
strata within succeeding the quartzite last described as reaching 
to the point, has some resemblance to soap-stone ; they are light 
grey, soft and unctuous argillites. In these the auriferous 
quartz vein is found. This is beautifully exposed on the side of 
the Cream-Pot, and can be studied to great advantage. This 
vein is very peculiar, it swells out and narrows in turns, being 
in the one case often of considerable thickness, on the other. 
very narrow. The great softness of the rock which includes it 
