TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



Art. 1. Notes on the Geology of Nova Scotia and 

 Cape Breton. By Key. D. Honeyman, D. C. L., 

 F. G. S. &c., Director oj" the Provincial Museum. 



{Read Nov. 11, 1872J 



I PURPOSE to direct attention to the results of a detailed exami- 

 nation of the metamorphic rocks of the interesting localities to 

 which my attention was directed last summer. The first in order 

 was in Cape Breton at George's River, in the vicinity of the Sydney 

 portion of the great Cape Breton Coal Field. George's River is 

 a small inlet of the Bras d'Or near the Little Passage, having 

 a brook flowing into it. When I arrived at the head of the 

 inlet, 1 observed an outcrop of red syenite at the bottom of the 

 mountain, and near it the remains of an old excavation. The latter 

 consisted chiefly of weathered serpentine. I then examined more 

 particularly the heap of material taken from a shaft recently sunk 

 at a short distance west of the old excavation. Here the prevailing 

 rocks were a beautiful white calcite and dark green serpentine. I 

 was at once assured that I had before me a counterpart of the 

 metamorphic, syenite, serpentine, and calcite, of Arisaig, Nova 

 Scotia. 



The other products of the shaft were small pieces of red jasper, 

 parts of a vein of iron pyrites of three or four inches thickness, and 

 a ponderous mineral of dark color chiefly, also iron pyrites. Of 

 another excavation farther to the west the product was a white 

 marble coarsely crystalline. Still farther on, for the distance of 

 probably two miles the sides of the mountains showed extensive out- 



