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or from the similar liills to the east ami south. In like 

 manner, the loii}^ ri(l,<fe of trap rocks, extending from cape 

 niomidon to Briar island, has sent of!" great (piantities of 

 hfjulders across the sandstone valley which bounds it on 

 tiic south and up the slopes of the slate and granite hills 

 to the southward of this valley. Well-characterized 

 fragments of tra]) from Pdomidon may he seen near the 

 town of Windsor : and I have seen unmistakalde frag- 

 ments of similar rock from Dighy neck, on the Tusket 

 river, thirty miles from tlieir original position. On the 

 other hand, numerous boulders of granite have been 

 carried to the northward from tiie liills of Annapolis, and 

 deposited on the slo])es of the o})posite trappean ridge; 

 and some of tlicm have been carried round its eastern 

 end, and now lie on the siiores of Londonderry and 

 Onslow. So also, -vliile immense numbers of boulders 

 iiave been scattered over the south coast from the granite 

 and (piartz rock ridges immediately inland, many have 

 drifted in the opposite direction, and may be found 

 scattered over the counties of Antigonish, I'ictou and 



Str.ililiiid ynivel on boukler-clay, Merigonisli, N.S. 



Colchester, A few boulders, apparently of Laurentian 

 rock from Labrador, occur on the north coast of Nova 

 Scotia, and Dr. Honeyman has recorded similar boulders 

 near Halifax on the Atlantic coast. These facts show 

 that the transport of travelled blocks, though it may here 

 as in othor parts of America have been principally from 



