8 HONEYjVIAK— ON NOVA SCOTIAN GEOLOGY* 



Koad. I found strata with Graptolithus Clintonenses and other 

 Graptolites, Trilobites, Strophomena, Orthis, &c. In the drift 

 near Sutherland's River I found abundance of upper Arisaig fossils, 

 shewing the existence of upper Arisaig strata in this quarter. 

 While making these discoveries I had also been developing the 

 Silurian of Springville, East River, Pictou. Having occasion to 

 visit this place annually I had become somewhat familiar with its 

 prominent features. It was, however, at the time of the Prince of 

 Wales' visit to Nova Scotia that I made decided progress in the 

 investigation of the details of the locality. I then made a special 

 visit to Springville with a view to a particular investigation. 



My worthy mare Jess, my associate in my distant Geological 

 rambles, apparently resolving that I should keep to work, took a 

 ramble herself, and left me for a month to pursue my geological in- 

 vestigations alone. I then discovered an interesting fauna in the 

 upper part of the series generically and specifically identical with the 

 Upper Arisaig. These were found immediately underlying the car- 

 boniferous at McLean's and Macintosh's. I found as at Arisaig, 

 Ascoceras, Orthoceras, Theca, Bellerophon, different species, 

 Murchisonia, Avicula Honeymani, abundant, Modiolopsis, Clido- 

 phorus, Spii-ifer subsulcatus, Chonetes Nova Scotica, Crania Aca- 

 diensis, Rhynchonella, various, Homalonotus Dawsoni, Dalmania 

 Logani, Proet^ Stokesi, Calymene, Leperditia, Beyrichia, Favo- 

 sites. One prominent stratum shewed exactly the same association 

 of organisms as at Arisaig, viz : Homalonotus Dawsoni, in abund- 

 ance, with abundance of Spirifer subsulcatus, Avicula* Honeymani, 

 and Cornulites. The only obvious distinction is, that the East River 

 stratum shews a higher degree of metamorphism than the stratum 

 at Arisaig. At the North of the late Rev. Angus McGillivray's 

 I found the Arisaig Niagara equivalent fossils. This ridge extends 

 up the river about a mile. The same farther south produced a 

 large Orthoceras, Strophemena profunda, Spirifer Crispus, Atrypa 

 reticularis, Rhynchonella didyma, Rhynchonella varia, Calymene 

 and Homalonotus, of species as in the same horizon at j^risaig. I 

 also found a lower band in a mountain in the rear with singular 

 Discina, Liugula and Homalonotus, different from these of the higher 

 members. This appeared to be of Lower Arisaig age, Baivson. 



