GEOLOGY OF AYLESFORD— HONEYMAN. 9 
beautiful amygdaloid bouller is seen on the left. We examine 
and chip it. An outcrop of red arenaceous and argillaceous slate 
is observed crossing the road. We observe its strike. It is N. 
80 E..S. 80 W. This is doubtless an extension of the silurian 
of the eastern and western parts of South Mountain, Wolfville, 
Kentville and Annapolis County, Nictaux and Moose River, 
outcrops of similar strata, but of gray colour, continue, as far as 
the Jackson Road. At the corner of the two roads, and on the 
latter, are beautiful exposures of glaciated surfaces. We take 
the courses of a number of these, and find that they are generally 
8. 30 E., corresponding with striation of Point Pleasant, Halifax. 
This is the pathof North Mountain basaltic and amygdaloid 
boulders, which are still observable. We are now in quest of the 
Canaan Road. To reach it we proceed westward on the Jackson 
Road until we reach a cross-road leading south. We proceed 
along this, observing boulders of granite, basalt and amygdaloid, 
and reach the Canaan Road. This road was noticed in previous 
papers, e. g., Nictaux. We are disappointed to find this road— 
surveyed, but only opened and used here and there. On our left 
(east) it is only a foot-path ; to the right we walk along. There 
are houses and fields on the south and forest on the north. 
Among the boulders we observe and collect beautiful amygdaloids. 
Coming to the end of the forest on the right, in a clearing with 
stumps, we observe a towering outcrop of rocks. They are very 
ferruginous. Chipping them they are seen to be gneissoid, 
similar to the Halifax “ironstone,” and probably of the same 
age—Cambrian. Returning to the road we observe low outcrops 
with 8. 80 W., N. 80 E. strike. In a clearing on the south we 
procecd farther southwards. Observing white rock on the 
high ground we made for it direct. Here was a chief object of 
our search. Granites in sitw; roches moutonnées running east 
and west—the sources of the granite boulders which we have 
met with so often. With Dana we regard these granites as of 
Archaean age and of Metamorphic origin. Others regard them 
as of Devonian age and Igneous origin. (Vide our papers 
Trans.) We return. On the north of the granites we have a 
depression with bog. We cross this by a bridge, reaching the 
