42 GEOLOGY OF HALIFAX AND COLCHESTER CO’S—HONEYMAN. 
brian strata. This is the only exposure of consequence. Drift 
is the only formation noticed in the remainder of the road, 
Reaching Gay’s River we turn to the right and travel along the 
old road, a distance of 4 miles, and come to the Gold Field iD 
the County of Colchester. This isa field of very great interest: 
It is different from all the other gold fields, and as yet stands 
alone. It was first examined by the late Prof. F. C. Hartt, who 
determined its true geological position. At first the gold con- 
taining deposit was supposed to be a drift. Prof. Hartt recog- 
nized the deposit asa Lower Carboniferous Conglomerate. Not 
being aware of this, I went and made an independent examina- 
tion, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. McLean. I communicated 
the results to the Institute in Session 1866—Vide Transactions. 
I found the deposit containing the gold to be a thick conglom- 
erate overlying Lower Cambrian argillites. I also found that 
this conglomerate was succeeded by limeciones (?) and gypsums, 
and therefore occupying the normal position of a Lower Car- 
boniferous Conglomerate. I also compared the deposit with the 
Ovens—the Lunenbury Gold Field. Considering that the 
conditions under which the Gay’s River auriferous deposit had 
been formed in the Lower Carboniferous period were analogous 
to those of the formation of the gold-bearing of the Lunenburg 
Ovens, i. e., that the seas of the Lower Carboniferous period by 
their tear and wear had formed a shingle of and on the argillites 
and quartzites in the manner of a beech, that the associate gold 
by its superior gravity had made its way towards the bottom of 
the shingle, as it is so found in the conglomerate, and that the 
shingle had been converted into conglomerate by the salts of 
iron contained in the auriferous argillites. 
At the time of examination I obtained interesting specimens 
of the gold containing conglomerate, which were exhibited in my 
Geological Collection at the Exposition de Paris, 1867. These 
excited considerable interest. Prof. T. Rupert Jones received 
one or two specimens to shew Sir Roderick I. Murchison, as 
interesting specimens. Subsequently the late R. G. Fraser 
shewed me a piece of auriferous rock from these mines. On 
close examination the gold was seen to be in small quartz veins 
