♦ CAMBRIAN ROCKS OF NOVA SCOTIA. POOLE. 237 



On September 24th, 1878, this Institute had an outing of its 

 members '" and the secretary reported that on following the 

 shore from Purcell's Cove towards Falkland village, on the 

 western side of Halifax Harbour, " attention was directed by Dr. 

 Hbneyman to a conglomerate recently formed by the accumu- 

 lated debris of granite, gneiss and slate cemented with oxide of 

 iron derived from pyritous gneissoid rocks." 



In volume vii of our Transactions for 1886, p. 44, Dr. 

 Honeyman refers to a remnant of Lower Carboniferous con- 

 glomerate, resembling that of Gay's river, occurring near Grand 

 Lake station, that reaches within a short distance of the rail- 

 way. The glaciatiou of the argillite surfaces around, shows, 

 he says, the nature of the agency that has been at work in the 

 isolation of this remnant of the Carboniferous period. 



These views of Dr. Honeyman were written subsequent to 

 his paper of November, 1885, on Glacial Action, wherein, on 

 page 254 of the Transactions, vol. vi, he treats of the breccia 

 at the head of the North West Arm, east side ; and that lying 

 between Richmond and H. M. Dockyard on the west side of 

 Halifax Harbour. This he considered to be like other conglom- 

 erates, formed by the action of sea agency, and which he was 

 disposed to regard as the remains of an ancient formation, e. g., 

 Carboniferous. Now he says he is persuaded that the rock is 

 a glacial debris, cemented together by oxide of iron. Sections 

 indicated the breccia filling the hollows of the underlying 

 argillites. 



On putting these various references together, it would appear 

 that wliile Dr. Honeyman notes the strong similarity of the 

 isolated and lowest of the deposits which directly rest on 

 .Cambrian strata, he classes some as belonging to the Lower 

 Carboniferous period and others as of the Pleistocene, but how 

 he distinguishes between them he does not explain. 



(1) Trans. N. S. Inst. Va< Sc, vol. iv, p. 491 



