16 HONEY]\IAN — ON NOVA SCOTIAN GEOLOGY. 



about two miles from the coast on McDougaU's mountain south of 

 Bayfield's Beacon, 1000 feet above the sea level, according to 

 Bayfield's measurement. I found the lowest rock here to be a 

 conglomerate^ very much hardened and shewing cleavage. When 

 I first observed this rock, I imagined that I had found a lower 

 carboniferous conglomerate in a very elevated and unusual position. 

 I consider this as the equivalent of the Oneida Conglomerate. 

 To the north of this and overlying it, are greenish quartzite strata, 

 which on the surface is chalk white, and yields to the knife. 

 Passing on the west, along the strike of the rocks, we come to 

 McDonald's Hill, having an equal elevation of 1000 feet. In the 

 rear of this is the same quartzite, south of the Frenchman's Barn. 

 Still proceeding westward, we come .to the main branch of Doctor's 

 Brook — here the same quartzite is exposed rising from the Brook 

 into lofty ridges. Farther west the mountain range continues south 

 of Arisaig Pier, having the same quartzite with grit apparently 

 corresponding with the conglomerate of McDougaU's mountain. 

 South of this, or under it, I found exposed in a field a considerable 

 outcrop of syenite. I found all obscure in the rear or to the 

 south of this. There is a table land with good farms, with the 

 wilderness to the south. Passing westward in the rear of the 

 mountains, I found this range apparently extending onward like a 

 titanic rampart toward Merigomishe. I observed an outcrop of 

 the same strata on a small bank south of McAdam's Brook referred 

 to in describing the fossiliferous band of Arisaig. Observing a 

 brook in the mountains N. W. of this, I attempted to find a path. 

 I found a long, dreary and tortuous way in the shape of the bed of 

 the main branch of Mill Brook. Where this Brook intersects the 

 mountains, I found noble sections of the quartzite already pointed 

 out, and other strata. I should have liked to have traversed the 

 brook throughout, but I was diverted from my path by a bear 

 which appeared to be disposed to dispute the right of way. As I 

 did not feel disposed to dispute the matter, I betook myself to the 

 steep side of the mountain, and at last regained the brook in 

 safety, and emerged from it between lofty sides of the mountains 

 with fine sections of argillites ; passed through the north side of the 

 mountain range with its outcropping argillites at the forks of the 



