378 FOSSILS IN THE BOULDER-CLAY OF KINGS COUNTY HAYCOCK. 



Some internal evidences of this derivation are found in the 

 fragments themselves. The material differs from the usual red 

 sandstone beds only in fineness of texture. It contains the 

 minute spherical blotches that have been described as occurring 

 in these sandstones at Rossway and Pereau, and the Pereau 

 locality lies about two miles to the north. Again, the glaciation 

 of the fragments does not indicate a long journey; though 

 deeply scratched, the corners are only partially rounded. The 

 rather soft and brittle nature of the rock is also unfavorable to 

 a long exposure to ice action. Thus there seems to be little 

 doubt that these fossils were derived from the Triassic sand- 

 stones ; that the layers from which they were derived lie between 

 Kingsport point and the contact of the sandstone and trap on 

 the southern slope of the North Mountain, and that they are 

 more likely to be found on the north side of the Pereau river. 



If the origin of the fossils proves to be as supposed, they are, 

 so far as my knowledge goes, the first recorded animal remains 

 from this formation in Nova Scotia ; and they may help to fix 

 the age of a series of beds that heretofore have had their posi- 

 tion in the Geological Record determined by their lithological 

 resemblances to a formation in the Connecticut Valley several 

 hundred miles distant. 



