GLACIAL GEOLOGY OF NOVA SCOTIA—HONEYMAN, 81 
through our Lower Cambrian Formation, with its gold fields, 
near Windsor Junction and Mount Uniacke, and we have entered 
upon the Lower Carboniferous, with its sandstones, gypsums and 
limestones. All these are seen exposed in railway sections. The 
geological gap is enormous; all the formations between the 
Lower Cambrian and Lower Carboniferous are unrepresented. 
On the Lower Carboniferous is the post-pliocene drift. Here 
there is another gap. Our boulders, often large in size, are 
frequently seen. We come to the gypsum of Windsor, in quarries 
These also outcrop on the banks of the Avon, with fossil- 
iferous limestones, of which we have abundance of boulders 
at Lawrencetown Head on the “Terminal Moraine.” It was 
here that I first became acquainted, about twenty years ago, 
with those amygdaloids with which we are now so familiar. It 
was not clear to me how the Archean boulders of the Cobequid 
Mountain rocks became associated with the amygdaloids as we 
have found them until I visited this locality with the members 
of the British Association. Dr. Blanford then turned my 
attention to boulders here, mixed with amygdaloids. I at once 
saw that they had crossed the Minas Basin with the amygdaloids, 
and that consequently some of the latter might have come from 
Partridge Island. I had not previously revisited this locality 
since I had commenced my investigations, and hence the per- 
plexity. We now cross the Avon Bridge and proceed onward. 
Only drift is observed in all directions until we come to about 3 
miles from Hantsport. An outcrop of gypsum is observed. Its 
continuation was afterward seen in considerable quantity on the 
side of the Avon. We now reach Hantsport. Here on the 
following morning we are to be met by the professors, lecturers 
and students of the Summer Science School, now in session at 
Acadia College, Wolfville. 
As this locality was new to me I made a reconnaissance, rising 
at day-break, 5 o'clock. The ground is hilly, without any out- 
crops of rocks. Observing from the railway station a section of 
one of the hills, | approached it and found it to be a section of 
drift. Our familiar boulders, Archwean and Triassic, appear in 
great force and of all sizes. We are now in sight of Blomidon 
