XII.—RecorpDs oF Post-Triassic CHANGES IN Kines County, 
N. S.—By Pror. E. Haycock, Acadia College, Wolfville, 
INES) 
(Read 9th April, 1900.) 
It was my privilege last Autumn to make a hasty survey 
of that part of Kings County lying north of Canning, including 
Cape Blomidon. Several interesting problems were suggested 
during this trip, which I hope to follow up in the future. 
I had in view two definite aims in visiting this region. The 
first was to look for the contact of the basaltic trap of the North 
Mountain with the underlying north-westerly dipping sandstone, 
and I hoped to find this contact laid bare and accessible to. 
observation in the natural cross section formed by the line of 
clitts which extends westwardly from Cape Blomidon to Cape 
Split. This line of cliffs was carefully examined from Amethyst 
Cove, where the trap extends beneath the sea, eastward to Cape 
Blomidon where red sandstone cut into many fantastic shapes. 
by wind and water rises nearly two hundred feet and is sur- 
mounted by a sheet of black basaltic trap some two hundred 
feet in thickness ending abruptly in vertical cliffs behind and 
above the towers and bastions of the sandstone. Although the 
place where the contact of the two formations reaches the beach 
is easily determinable, and is marked by a long sloping line of 
springs, the talus of loose blocks and debris from the trap above 
is so great that at no point was the actual contact visible or 
accessible, so that the problem to be settled, whether the trap 
was poured out on a smooth sea bottom or on an old eroded 
land surface, remained undetermined. 
The second object of the trip was to examine the coast 
section south-west from Scot’s Bay. In the Transactions of the 
Institute for 1893-94, (Volume VIIL, pp. 416, 419,) Mr. R. W. 
Ells mentions the occurrence, in this vicinity, of a calcareous 
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