IV. — List of Localities for Trap Minerals in Nova Scotia.* 

 By the late Rev. Thomas McCulloch, D. D., President, 

 and Professor of Moral Philosophy, Logic and Rhetoric, 

 in Dalhousie University. 



(Read Lf/h Decnjiher, 1891.) 



TRAP DISTRICT. 



LOCALITIES FOR MINERALS. 



St. Marys Bay. 



Little River, Mink Cove. 

 Jasper in varieties. 



Lamellar quartz, with calcareous spar. 

 White diabasie in geodes of ([uartz. 

 Magnetic iron ore. 



Onward to Sandy Cove. 



Geodes of (juartz in jasper, transparent. 

 Geodes witli amethyst, various shades. 

 Geodes with quartz, amethyst, and chabasie. 

 Lamellar qiiartz with calcareous spar in cavities. 

 Red, yellow and striped jasper in fissures. 



Sandy Cove. 



Stilbite in geo<les of chalce<lony. 

 Quartz crystals, fine. 

 Specular iron oi'e, brilliant, 



Ditto, embedded in limpid chalcedony. 



Ditto, in transparent chabasie. 



Ditto, with quartz and calcareous spar. 



* This is a very old list, and was found recently among the Museum specimens of the McCulloch 

 Collection, presented to Dalhousie Collejre by the Rev. William McCulloch, D. D., of Truro. The 

 original manuscript bears neither date nor author's name, but, on its being forwarded to Rev. 

 Ur. \V. McCulloch, tn ascertain if it was in his father's hand-writing, he replied : " You are right 

 about the document enclosed. 1 had given it up as lost. It is in my father's hand, though the work 

 was the joint labour of my father and brother 'Thomas, running ever years." — Gf.orge Lawson. 



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