GLACIAL GEOLOGY OF NOVA SCOTIA—HONEYMAN. 19 
It is so called as on it was erected a block house fort which com- 
manded Bedford Basin and the road to Prince’s Lodge (Duke of 
Kent’s). It is now a cultivated field, but the site of the fort is 
still plain. From the heaps of stones on the field, Henry Piers 
brought to the Museum first a boulder of basalt and afterwards 
the usual Archean and Triassic boulders. We may, therefore, 
regard this as another locality. 
THE AVON. 
Last summer on an excursion to Wolfville I proceeded from 
Halifax by the Windsor and Annapolis Railway. This line 
approximately runs in the track of our glacier, so that on our 
way to the Avon we may be considered as following the receding 
glacier. The North Street Station from which we start, stands 
opposite H. M. Dockyard, where lately rose, Observatory Hill, 
which was a vast accumulation of the “ Cow Bay Type.” Of this 
we have a splendid memorial collection in our Museum, made 
during its removal. The hill disappeared finally, on November 
4th, 1885, at 3.50 P.M., railway time; I watched its disappearance. 
Starting and proceeding we pass on the right of Fort Needham, 
another accumulation of the same kind, at Three-Mile House we 
come into the vicinity of Blockhouse Hill. We are in the track, 
on Bedford Basin. Navy Island is near the opposite shore. In 
the beginning of my investigations I was on this island and 
found the characteristic boulders of Cow Bay. When the Royal 
Engineers were surveying around .Bedford Basin, Colonel Akers, 
R. E., late major general, examined the island and made a collec- 
tion of boulders corresponding with his Thrum Cap collection. 
He intended to present both to the Museum of the Royal 
Engineers at Chatham. This island is 10 miles north of Thrum 
Cap. A full account of the glacial phenomena of this Basin is 
to be found in my paper, Transactions of the Institute, 1885-6. 
At Bedford we cross the bridge that crosses the Sackville River. 
On the opposite side of this, we have a drift cutting. I examined 
this when it was fresh and found our familiar boulders. It is 
now obscured. If we were to change our route and travel the 
Windsor Road, which runs nearly parallel with the Sackville 
