GLACIAL GEOLOGY OF NOVA SCOTIA—HONEYMAN. 33 
party, we reached the other side of the Island, where the rocks 
are amygdaloidal, and, so to speak, amorphous, having zeolitic 
and jaspideous veins. As our time was short and uncertain, and 
depended upon the flow of the (Bay of Fundy) tide, our look at 
the rocks and their contents was very hurried. As for myself, 
this was not of much consequence, as I had already given them 
some considerable attention on my previous visit with the mem- 
bers of the British Association. After noticing the connection 
of those igneous rocks with the sandstones of the Triassic For- 
mation we re-assembled and embarked on board the steamer. 
I could only then take a look of the Cobequid Mountains rising 
at no great distance—the home of our Archean boulders, with 
which we have become familiar, but not more so than we are 
with the parent rocks, which we have repeatedly and carefully 
examined. Vide papers on the Cobequid Mountains. Trans. 
I. N.S, Vol. III, 1873-4. 
The height of these Archzean Mountains only in one instance 
exceeds 1000 feet. We have thus followed our glacier in its 
retreat up to its possible source. We stop there. 
In our first paper which we communicated to our Institute on 
this subject, and which we also read before the American Philo- 
sophical Society, Philadelphia, during the Centennial Exhibition, 
I incidentally referred to the work of two previous observers 
and their theories of the phenomena observable in our field. 
Vide Transactions, Vol. IV., page 122. The observers were Dr. 
Dawson (Sir J. W.), and the late Thomas Belt, F. G.S., “the 
Naturalist of Nicaragua,” who is well known in connection with 
gold mining in Nova Scotia, and as an original and active mem- 
ber of our Institute and a personal friend. Both of these are 
regarded as authorities in Glacial Geology. We will quote the 
ipsissima verba, and only append one or two notes. This seems 
to me to be all that is necessary. In Dawson’s Acadian Geology, 
second edition (1868), page 71, we thus read: “Nor would I 
exclude altogether the action of glaciers in eastern America, 
though I must dissent from any view which would assign to 
them the principal agency in our glacial phenomena. * * * 
The striation itself shows that there must have been extensive — 
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