136 SUPERFICIAL GEOLOGY—HONEYMAN. 
other numerous irregularities as effects of the champlain period. 
The formation of the valley of Kings and Annapolis which 
lies within the bounds of our western glacial division is a notable 
example. During the process a glacial highway was swept away. 
Granite masses from the South Mountain were displaced, carried 
northward, landed in the middle of the valley, and boulders were 
even carried into the North Mountain, and aqueous accumula- 
tions were formed in the valley, having North Mountain 
amygdaloids and South Mountain granites, and other rocks im- 
bedded in sand hills, having bedding which is absent from the 
glacial accumulations of the central division. 
Co-temporaneous with the excavation of this valley and the 
destruction of the glacial highway was a like operation in the 
central division, between Parrsboro’”, Blomidon and the south side 
of the Avon Estuary, where the waters of the Minas Basin now 
flow. 
The celebrated “ Boar’s Back” of River Hebert, in Cumberland 
County, the filling of the break in the Cobequid, between Spring- 
hill and Parrsboro’, through which the railway passes and the 
archzean (A) transported boulders at Springhill, &e, to the north 
of the Cobequids, are all referred to the champlain period and ~ 
indicated by the (yellow) colouring of our map and the small 
letters (ch.) 
In like manner we refer and indicate certain phenomena in 
Pictou County. 
In following up the Archzean (A) transportation (a) of the 
eastern division I found boulders lying on the sides of the 
Pictou Railway, east of Mount Thom and the eastern extremity 
of the Cobequids and still continuing in a North East direction 
as far as the Albion Mines. Among the syenitic boulders, one 
which was very beautiful reminded me of a large boulder which 
[ found at Merigomish in 1869, when I was in the service of the 
Geological survey. Of this I had a specimen in my rock collec- 
tion. Sir W. E. Logan admired it very much and was disappointed 
when I told him that it was part of a boulder. 
In Antigonish County, we have associated with an important 
glacial transportation, a champlain series of elevations which 
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