SUPERFICIAL GEOLOGY—HONEYMAN. 137 
commence near the shore, Malignant Cove, and extend in a 
southerly direction to a distance of 4 miles. On the top of the 
last hill is a R. C. Chapel, which is visible from a great distance. 
In the rising ground, in the town and around it are stratified clays 
one of the beds produced a number of specimens of a fossil plant. 
Some of these had a beautiful blue pigment, which Prof. How 
describes in his Mineralogy of Nova Scotia. Vide “ Revision of 
the Geology of Antigonish County.” Trans., 1885-6. 
We have defined the formation on our map. From the eastern 
extremity of the province we pass to the western counties, Digby 
and Yarmouth. At Weymouth, the Railway shows a section of 
a formation which we regard as Champlain. Videmap. At the 
station was a large boulder (t) of triassic Basalt from the 
triassic (I) igneous range. Vide Polariscopic Notes Trans. Vol, 
Nel ps 121. 
3.—Recent (r). 
We go to Clam Bay, on the Atlantic coast and the eastern side 
of the eastern division. Here we find on the shore a section of 
(a g) formation very much covered by sands thrown up by the 
waves and winds. If we are to regard (ag) as a part of the 
“terminal moraine,’ then we have a glacial period formation over 
laid by Recent with Champlain overlapped. We cannot for a 
moment suppose that the latter is missing, as the Atlantic must 
have been unintermittingly active since the glacial period. 
There is however another alternative. 
The Atlantic may have encroached so far on the Terminal 
moraine as to have reached the accumulations formed during the 
Champlain period. We may thus have the Recent in course of 
formation on the Champlain, and the succession may, in a manner, 
be considered as regular. The same reasoning may apply to Cow 
Bay and other parts of the coast. 
Antigonish is built largely on “intervale” and hence the town 
itself was wont to be called by the old inhabitants “ the Intervale.” 
This is formed at the confluence of a number of rivers and 
brooks and succeeds the Champlain referred to above. The 
Indian Gardens which lie at the head of the Harbour is a con- 
tinuation of this intervale. All this is remarkable for its fertility. 
