244 NOVA SCOTIAN GEOLOGY—HONEYMAN. 
we have a point in the line 2} miles north of the grey quartzite 
and argillite cutting. Following our hypothetical line to Bear 
River N. 40 E., we have the approximate boundary south of the 
village and Rice’s mill. From Bear River to Moose River it lies 
between the granites and fossiliferous quartzites. It then fol- 
lows the granite line from Moose River to Beale’s Lake, and the 
Digby and Annapolis shore road, 6 miles from Annapolis. It 
follows the same line to Annapolis River, Paradise River and 
Lawrencetown. It passes south to the diorites which are on the 
south of the westward continuation of the Nictaux fossiliferous 
strata. Touching Nictaux it comes between the diorites, fossilifer- 
ous strata and the granites on the Lawrencetown and Albany 
road. At the back (S8.) of Cleveland Mountain it lies between 
the granite and the overlying magnetite and fossiliferous strata. 
On the Albany road it lies between the gneissoid and the mag- 
netite strata on the Nictaux and Albany road. It passes on to 
the division between the diorite and gneissoid rocks on the 
Bloomington Road. It then comes between the fossiliferous and 
quartzite and eneissoid rocks at Wheelock’s, south of the New 
Canaan road, and then between the diorites and contorted gneis- 
soid strata at Gordon’s, south of the same road and east of the 
Annapolis and King’s County line. 
CORRELATION. 
In Acadian Geology, Ed. 1855, pages 346-7, the following 
occurs regarding the age of the “ Metamorphic district of the 
Atlantic Coast”: “ Hitherto each successive formation has been 
proved to be older than that which preceded it, by the evidence 
of direct contact, in such a way that the older could be seen to 
underlie the newer.” Here we lose this chain of evidence. I 
have found no section in which the Devonian or Upper Silurian 
rocks, described in the last chapter, could be seen to rest on those 
now described. Yet I believe the group of rocks now under 
consideration to be the older of the two for the following reasons. 
On the St. Mary’s River, fragments of slate and quartz rock 
from this formation are found in the lower carboniferous con- 
elomerate, proving that these rocks were metamorphosed before 
