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and consequently have large quantities of ores lying in their stores 

 in England. This check cannot be considered otherwise than as 

 a partial hindrance, which it is to be hoped will soon be removed. 

 The surveyors also have returned without accomplishing their 

 intended route, owing to the want of Avater and failure of stores. 

 I believe they returned upon their route when half way across. 

 It is true that we have had an exceedingly dry summer. 



Art. rV. — Eecoed oe Obseeyatioks on the Geology of 



NoYA Scotia, since 1855. By Eey. D. Honeyman, 



D. C. L., F. G. S., &c., Director of the Provincial 



Museum, 



(Bead December 12, 1870.; 



I PROCEEDED from Arisaig to examine the district about Anti- 

 gonish, I took the road that passes along Arisaig Brook and 

 Doctor's Brook, through the mountains. South of these mountains 

 before descending into the lower ground I found a considerable 

 outcrop of Lower Carboniferous Limestone, shewing the existence 

 of the Carboniferous formation in this direction. Having reached 

 Antigonish, I commenced the examination of the subtriangular 

 area of rocks, of which the Sugar Loaf forms a part. 



In this band there are two anticlinals and an intermediate 

 synclinal. The south side of the one anticlinal is overlaid uncon- 

 formably by carboniferous strata, and so is the north side of the 

 other. The axis of the southern anticlinal is in the line of the 

 summit rock of the Antigonish Sugar Loaf. This rock is green- 

 stone. The line of the northern anticlinal is about two miles north 

 of the Sugar Loaf. The greenstone of this axis is exposed in an 

 outcrop on McDonald's farm near the Gulf Road, and also in 

 McDonald^ Brook to the east. This axis extends eastward and 

 outcrops on the side of St. George's Bay. It also extends west- 

 ward and outcrops in a bluff east of Saml. Cameron's. This area 

 of metamorphic Arisaig strata is bounded S. W. and N. by 

 carboniferous strata. la a smaU brook at the side of the Gulf 



