TRANSACTIONS. 
ART. I.—A GeroLoGicaL RECREATION IN MASSACHUSETTS CEN- 
BREA. oA. sbYy REV. DD) HonnYMAN: 1D))-C. hi, 
Hakeon@., beiseoce, KaGoe, Ay iwc; “Curator of 
the Provincial Museum. 
(Read Nov. 12,1888.) 
We left Halifax en route to Boston on the Ist of September. 
We reached Boston on the 3rd. On the same day we proceeded 
by the Central Massachusetts R. R. and arrived at our destina- 
tion, Barrie Plains, 62 miles from Boston, or rather on the high 
ground above the station, Belledune. 
The house is of red brick made from a clay deposit, just beyond 
the border of the farm. The steps are of granitic gneiss from a 
quarry on Rocky Hill which is on the east of the “old brick 
yard”. The dykes which intersect the farm are largely constructed 
of gneisses and schists which once cumbered the fields. The 
solid rocks are not visible. All are covered and clothed with 
vegetation. 
There can be little doubt however that these stones represent 
the underlying rocks. 
Ascending to Rocky Hill I found in the rear beautiful sections 
of granitic gneisses, and in the front the same were seen exposed 
so as to reveal their granitic character and constitution. This 
is the so-called quarry whence the slabs were taken which 
we have already noticed. Out of the bands we collected fine 
specimens of oligoclase with attached quartz. The best specimen 
was picked up in a potatoe field. ; 
These rocks were at once recognised as Laurentian—Archie in 
Gneisses. 
In the cairns of rocks gathered from the fields I found abund- 
ance of boulders of Micaceous Schists thickly set with garnets. 
Finer specimens were collected from the dykes or fences, 
