44. GEOLOGY OF HALIFAX AND COLCHESTER CO’S—HONEYMAN. 
no great distance from the road, and very near the surface. I 
also examined the other mines. Some of these were in operation 
and others at rest. The conviction was and is that the process 
which produced our 54 ounces, or $1000 specimens, was capable 
of extensive production. This is from a scientific point of view. 
Returning to Enfield Station, and proceeding along the line 
of railway towards the Waverley Mines, we find evidence of the 
existence of gypsums until we approach a creck on the left, 
where argillites appear in Grand Lake and continue associated 
with quartzites to the Grand Lake Station. Then we enter upon 
a broad band of argillites. These only appear in the cuttings: 
If, however, we take the road from the station and proceed a 
little distance we will observe in an opening in the bushes to the 
right a limited and isolated patch of another formation. This is 
a remnant of Lower Carboniferous Conglomerate, resembling that 
cf Gay’s River, with the exception of the seeming absence of gold. 
This is of considerable thickness and rests upon the upturned 
edges of the underlying argillites. It reaches to within a short 
distance of the railway. The glaciation of the argillite surfaces 
around shows the nature of the agency that has been at work in 
the isolation of this remnant of the Carboniferous Period. 
Proceeding onward by the road or railroad we come to the 
Waverley or German Mines respectively. 
WAVERLEY GOLD MINES (B.) 
Age and Origin of the Gold. 
From this position we proceed to the consideration of the 
two topics just indicated. The peculiarity of one of its gold 
deposits led us into a similar discussion 21 years ago. I now 
consider the questions with the advantage of observation and 
experience since made and acquired. At that time we knew 
nothing of the Gay’s River Gold Field, and consequently any 
opinion that would extend the time of production of the gold 
into the Carboniferous Period might have been maintained. As 
far as our gold fields are concerned Gay’s River Gold Field dis- 
poses of this view as altogether untenable. The gold existed 
in the Lower Cambrian rocks of Nova Scotia before the 
