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logic or economic units. Its work is still too largely areal. 

 Whenever the far-sighted policy is adopted of allowing it 

 an animal appropriation more nearly connnensurate with 

 the needs of the Dominion, we, in common with others, will reap 

 the benefit. lentil then, with others, we must wait for the 

 fulfilment of some of our ambitions for Nova Scotia. There is 

 reason to believe that the maps we already possess are used with 

 intelligence by a very small number of those interested in the 

 mineral economics of the province. 



Returning once more to the subject, we find that the problem 

 permits of division into two parts— the relations of gold-bearing 

 districts to each other, and the relations between the veins. Let 

 us look at the distribution of bedded-lead gold districts as known 

 at present. The discussion is here confined to tliat part of the 

 province east of the great granite mass which, starting near 

 Halifax, runs north and west to near Windsor : there meeting the 

 Carboniferous rocks, and thus cutting ofi'the eastern sedimentary 

 part of the gold-bearing series completely from the western. 

 The reasons for this delimitation of the subject are that the 

 country is better known to most, the workings are more num- 

 erous, older and on a larger scale, hence give greater oppor- 

 tunity for study, and the rocks are much less influenced by 

 granites. 



In this region, which is approximately 200 miles east and 

 west by 8 to 60 north and south, and embraces roughly 3,000 

 square miles, there are 26 well-marked anticlinal axes. Some 

 of these extend many miles east and west, and a few are very 

 local. In no way, however, do they run and die out en echelon, 

 after the manner of axes in the Appalachians. From south to 

 north, the anticlines on which gold districts lie, are (1) the Tangier 

 fold, with Ecum Secum, Harrigan Cove and Tangier; (2) the Ecum 

 Secum fold, a very local one, with a part of Ecum Secum ; (3) 

 the Lake Catcha-Salmon River fold, including Liscomb Mills, 

 Salmon River, and Lake Catcha ; (4) the Mooseland-Gegogan 



