378 FOSSILS IN THE BOULDER-CLAY OF KINGS COUNTY—HAYCOCK. 
Some internal evidences of this derivation are found in the 
fragments themselves. The material differs from the usual red 
sandstone beds only in fineness of texture. It contains the 
minute spherical blotches that have been described as occurring 
in these sandstones at Rossway and Pereau, and the Pereau 
locality lies about two miles to the north. Again, the glaciation 
of the fragments does not indicate a long journey; though 
deeply scratched, the corners are only partially rounded. The 
rather soft and brittle nature of the rock is also unfavorable to 
a long exposure to ice action. Thus there seems to be little 
doubt that these fossils were derived from the Triassic sand- 
stones ; that the layers from which they were derived lie between 
Kingsport point and the contact of the sandstone and trap on 
the southern slope of the North Mountain, and that they are 
more likely to be found on the north side of the Pereau river. 
If the origin of the fossils proves to be as supposed, they are, 
so far as my knowledge goes, the first recorded animal remains 
from this formation in Nova Scotia; and they may help to fix 
the age of a series of beds that heretofore have had their posi- 
tion in the Geological Record determined by their lithological 
resemblances to a formation in the Connecticut Valley several 
hundred miles distant. 
