302 POST-TRIASSIC CHANGES IN KINGS COUNTY, N. S.—HAYCOCK. 
no matter how small is thus recorded, and this account is merely 
an attempt to read aright such records as have come under the 
observation of the writer in a few hasty journeys among the 
newer formations of our Province. 
Brief and limited as these opportunities for observation have 
been, they have convinced me that the field for Geological 
investigation, in this region at least, is ample; that it is wonder- 
fully rich in undiscovered facts; and that for variety in litho- 
logical, in palaeontological and in structural features, it is. 
unequalled by any area of similar extent in eastern North 
America. That such is the case is shown by the results achieved 
by Sir J. Wm. Dawson during the third quarter of the century 
and set forth by him so clearly and interestingly in his “ Acadian 
Geology,” a work which must ever remain for us a model of 
close observation, broad and scientific induction, and elegant. 
expression. 
Because of its exceptional richness, however, the field has. 
not yet been exhausted, in the region of Minas Basin and west- 
ward the soil has merely been broken. The broader relations of 
the greac formations to one another have been worked out and 
their relative age established, but in knowledge of their litho- 
logical composition, fossil contents, structural peculiarities, 
conditions of deposition, relation to present topographic features,. 
etc., we are almost wholly deficient. The field is alluring and 
full of promise to the Geologist. Let us who are native born 
reap the rich harvest of facts before we are anticipated by 
workers from the over-crowded fields of New England. 
