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studied the country to the west of the Nictaux as far as Jones' Brook, and 

 to the east as far as Tor Brook. The iron strata at Cleveland appear to 

 show themselves to the south-west near Jones' Brook over two miles dis- 

 tant and beyond the mile belt of intrusive granite. To the north-east of 

 Cleveland, for a distance of four miles, there are several outcrops of 

 probably the same strata, th,e iron of which is hsematitic instead of mag- 

 netic. At the north -eastern end of this line which runs parallel with the 

 course of the Tor Brook for over two miles, are the Tor Brook Mines, 

 where a large quantity of valuable hematite was being mined. This iron 

 belt then appears to be at least six miles long, cutting the general mag- 

 netic north and south course of the Nictaux at Cleveland, as a line 

 running from the south-west (declining to the west) two miles across 

 the granite ridge referred to, to Tor brook, four miles to the north-east. 



Allusion was made to the interesting character of the geological 

 problem, to which our two greatest geologists have been giving different 

 solutions. Sir Win. Dawson thought the palaeontology of the iron beds 

 would place them as high as the Oriskany, the base of the Devonian, and 

 therefore higher than the rocks near the Nictaux Falls which might be 

 Lower Helderberg and Niagara (Upper Silurian). Dr. Honeyman would 

 put the iron beds lower even than the Niagara as low as the Clinton if 

 not the Medina. Collections of fossils were made at various points which 

 had not then been examined, so that he would not venture to say whether 

 later observations would justify any radical modification of the earlier 

 hypothesis or not. The railway cuttings as well as mining explorations 

 made in late years give geologists much better facilities for the complete 

 study of the problem. But with all the new facilities the original hypo- 

 thesis does not appear to be substantially disproved. 



Observations were also made on surface geology. Glacial erosion 

 was widely exhibited, and in at least one section of a drift bank cut by 

 the railway there was evidence of an older drift from north to south, as 

 well as a later from south to north, down the slope of the land to the 

 Annapolis Valley. 



FIFTH ORDINARY MEETING. 

 Church of England Institute, Halifax, llth March, 1895. 



The PRESIDENT in the chair. 



It was reported that Miss BERTHA ELLIOT, Superintendent of Nurses, 

 Victoria General Hospital, had been elected an ordinary member, and S. 



