IN KINGS COUNTY, N. S—HAYCOCK. 299 
except from the loftier and more exposed portions of the ridges. 
The prevalence of compact and amygdaloidal trap from the 
North Mountain in the Boulder clay all over the south side of the 
valley, as well as the rounded and worn north facing slopes of 
the elevations indicate that the general movement of the trans- 
porting agent was from the north. The general trend of all the 
striations I have yet seen in this vicinity is in the same direction. 
Although Boulder clay is rarely seen along the exposed side 
of the North Mountain except when sheltered by the precipitous 
walls of the deep gorges which have been alluded to, on the 
stretch of shore south-east of Seot’s Bay, deposits of considerable 
thickness rest alike on trap and limestone and contain striated 
fragments of both formations. In general the mass has the 
same decided red color as the sandstone clits underlying the 
trap at Cape Blomidon. One exception to this occurs in Ira 
Woodworth Bay where the underlying portion of this deposit is 
completely made up of a calcareous light grey clay mixed with 
angular, occasionally striated fragments of the sedimentary 
formation. It is wholly composed of the broken and pulverized 
layers of this sedimentary formation and passes up abruptly 
into the red clay and trap boulders among which no trace of 
limestone could be found. 
The abundance of boulder clay on this strip of coast proves it 
to have been a region of deposit rather than of erosion during 
its burial beneath the ice of the Glacial Period. That deposition 
was not continuous is shown, however, by the occurrence of the 
debris of the adjacent calcareous strata at the most westerly 
point at which these strata were seen. Farther east the red 
deposits seemed to rest directly upon the light grey limestone 
and sandstone and these portions do not seem to have suff-red 
as much from the grinding action of the ice sheet. 
The evidence from striations and from travelled boulders 
prove that the general movement of this ice sheet was from the 
north. From Ira Woodworth Bay, Cape Split bears due north 
and from this bold Cape a line of vertical cliffs from two to four 
hundred feet in height extends eastward for eight miles to Cape 
