course. It is extensively wrought, and furnishes more than 
any other locality in Nova Scotia. The sandstone in which 
the Newport gypsum occurs, is not of so dark a color as that 
on the opposite shore of the Basin, in the vicinity of the trap. 
It is greyish, and some of it almost white, composed princi- 
pally of quartz, with a small proportion of argillaceous sub- 
stance for a cement. 
On the banks of a small but cements stream which em 
ties itself into the St. Croix, called Montague River, a re- 
markably beautiful precipice of siliceous breccia passing into 
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sixty feet high, and rises from a base of the same rock form- 
ing the bed of the stream, which has excavated numerous 
cep holes into the bottom forming beautiful reservows of 
rushes, and | 
produces an agreeable effect. This place, adorned with 
overshadowing trees, is a favorite resort for the visitors of the 
ontague House, and has tempted the pencil of a noble 
lady to portray its beauties. ets! 
G also occurs abundantly in the county of Cumber- 
land, at the-head of Chignecto Bay. The most extensive 
bed is on the banks of the Maran River, where the gypsum 
ce. 
is of a bluish color and equal to any in the provin 
