SUPERFICIAL GEOLOGY—HONEYMAN. 139 
Of course they are largely derived from the constituents of the 
geological formations with which they are associated. 
The carboniferous regions—lower, middle and upper—and the 
triassic are chiefly to be distinguished, the latter for its red 
sands, and the former for its clays and sands. . 
Our map indicates that a champlain period left its mark on 
these regions, so as to cap largely and obscure the underlying 
formations, but not so as to obliterate the traces of their exist- 
ence even where they are most obscure. 
Recent agencies re-arrange and re-distribute so as to modify 
the material provided, and adapt it for economic purposes. 
I would remaik that after a rainy and stormy period the 
peculiar features of this surface geology are clearly displayed. 
These were the conditions under which I collected in Nova 
Scotia and Cape Breton the beautifully illustrative collec- 
tion which was exhibited in London, 1862. This consisted of 
clays of great variety, useful and beautiful. Ochre and ores (7?) 
Bog iron and Manganese, We. 
GOLD. 
In Lunenburg County we have the Ovens Gold washings. 
These are recent, and are still in the course of formation by the 
action of the Atlantic streams. 
This has been regarded as illustrative of the mode of formation 
of the auriferous conglomerates of Lower Carboniferous age at 
Gay’s River, Colchester County. Vide Transactions 1886-7. 
Stone Age.—Implements. 
Our Glacial Deposits, after the search of years, have failed to 
furnish any stone forms that can be regarded as the work of man. 
In my examination of the superficial geology on the Bay Cha- 
leur, New Brunswick, Vide “A Month Among the Geological 
Formations of New Brunswick,’ Trans. 1875, I was  cross- 
ing a field to get at the section of the Intercolonial Railway 
from which was taken the skeleton of the Beluga which is in 
our Provincial Museum, I saw a stone axe in my way. Of course 
I picked it up. It is in our Museum, duly labelled with the date, 
1874, I found the bed of the Beluga a section of Champlain 
