576 THE UPPER SILURIAN. 



syenite, and syenitic gneiss. The rocks of Oak Point seem to be a 

 connecting link between tbe two. 



" To tbe southwestward of the series last described, and directly 

 opposite the termination of the Kingston peninsula, the nature and 

 relations of the rocks are no longer doubtful. The abundance of pale 

 pink felsites and felspathic quartzites, with beds of interstratified 

 greenstone, at once recalls the rocks of Kingston, and indicates an 

 extension of this series to the westward. Except along the line of the 

 main river, however, their development in this direction is little known, 

 the district being as yet wholly unsettled. Rocks probably forming 

 a part of the same series appear far to the south-west, along the New 

 River, in the County of Charlotte. (See the Geological Map.) 



" While the rocks of Kingston have thus been shown to occupy an 

 extensive district, west and north of the St John River, along both 

 shores of the Reach, observations in other localities would seem to 

 indicate a corresponding easterly extension. 



" It has already been stated that, while occupying the entire peninsula 

 from which their name has been derived, these rocks may be traced to 

 the eastward in two diverging ridges, the one terminating at Dickie 

 Mountain, near Norton Station, the other at a short distance below the 

 head of Belleisle Bay. Stretching along the northern side of the latter, 

 and forming the watershed between the tributaries of the Belleisle and 

 Washademoak Rivers, is a ridge of rocks, somewhat variable in com- 

 position and of moderate elevation, which, though exhibiting some 

 peculiarities, can with difficulty be distinguished from the deposits of 

 Kingston and the Reach." 



In Professor Bailey's Report these rocks are described in detail, as 

 they occur at Bull Moose Hill, Belleisle Corner, and Kars. The 

 following remarks may be made with reference to their age and strati- 

 graphical relations : — 



(1.) A series of specimens were submitted by Professor Bailey to 

 the author and Dr Hunt, with the results stated in the following 

 words : — 



" In regard to the probable age of these rocks, Dr Hunt does not 

 regard them as veiy like anything he knows in Canada. They are 

 not like the Quebec group or the Laurentian, our two principal series 

 of metamorphic rocks in Lower Canada. 



u In comparing them with Nova Scotia, I have no hesitation in 

 saying that they are unlike our Atlantic coast series, which I believe 

 to be Lower Silurian, but that they are very like the rocks of the 

 Cobequid Mountains and of the inland hills of Eastern Nova Scotia, 

 which I believe to be Middle and Upper Silurian. This is the age to 



