S6 HONEYMAN — ON THE GEOLOGY OF K^OTA SCOTIA* 



I have already observed that I found granite in a mountain at 

 Big Baddeck, and was thereby led to infer and maintain that the 

 auriferous slates of Wagamatcook, or Middle River Cape Breton, 

 lying at no great distance from the mountain, were Lower Silurian 

 metamorphic, like the slates of Nova Scotia Gold Fields. I would 

 now observe, that among the specimens of polished marble sent to 

 the Paris Exhibition from Nova Scotia there was a specimen of 

 green marble (serpentine) exhibited by W. A. Hendry, Esq., 

 Deputy Commissioner of Crown Lands. This specimen attracted 

 some attention. It was particularly noticed by Dr. Sterry Hunt, 

 of the Canadian Greological Commission, and Professor Lesley, 

 Professor Wyville Thomson, of Belfast, also noticed it, and detect- 

 ed in it what he called Eozoonal structure. He asked me where it 

 came from, and from what geological formation. I replied, from 

 Cape Breton ; that I had not examined the locality ; that Dr. Daw- 

 son in his Acadian Geology had supposed that Devonian rocks pre- 

 vailed in the region. Considering that the specimen would be of 

 service in proving that the Eozoon Canadense was not organic, 

 he asked for the specimen and received it. The specimen excited 

 some commotion in London, among the Eozoonal controversialists. 

 Dr. Hunt cognizant of all this, ventured to make the following fore^ 

 cast. ** A line drawn from Malignant Cove (Arisaig) Laurentian 

 to Newfoundland, will pass through Cape Breton, we may now ex- 

 pect to find limestones with Eozoon there." (Professor Hind's letter, 

 addressed to Hon. R. Robertson, Chief Commissioner of Mines, 

 Nova Scotia — Chronicle JSFQwspaper,) Whether this specimen has 

 Eozoon structure or not, there is one thing certain, that the speci- 

 men resembled the Laurentian of Arisaig, and there is every proba- 

 bility that the Cape Breton Eaugomjian Tind the Arisaig are of the 

 same geological age — Laurentian. With a view to a farther eluci- 

 dation of the subject, I requested Mr. Murray, student of the Pres- 

 byterian Theological Hall, when going to Cape North, C. B., last 

 spring, to bring for the Museum specimens of the prominent rocks. 

 Among the specimens which he brought there are very coarse 

 granites ; — two from Whitehead, Aspy Bay, one from a granite 

 rock situate about fifteen miles from Cape Ray, or seventeen and a 

 half miles S. S. W. from Whitehead. The felspar of the speci- 



