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crystals of red feldspar, it is Porphyritic. There are also banded 

 jaspideous rocks. The rocks seem to have a dip of 48° N. 30 E. 

 The jaspideous rocks and the absence of granitoid rocks make me 

 separate this band from the preceding, just as I separated the one 

 preceding it on account of its quartzites and want of granitoid 

 rocks. The diorites of either band and the porphyries of Smith's 

 Cutting might readily be regarded as the associates of the granitoid 

 rocks and a part of the central band. 



Proceeding still further we observe on the side of the Pailway 

 outcrops of purple coloured grits, some of these having abundance 

 of crystals, of yellow felspar were for some time mistaken for 

 porphyries. There are also massive. boulders of very hard purple 

 conglomerate, with inclosed pebbles of scarlet jasper. There are 

 also outcrops of purple jaspideous rocks and crystalline diorites. 

 Besides these there are other rocks which it is difficult to charac- 

 terize. At the Went worth Station there is an obscure interval 

 which is probably the approximate position of a conglomerate of 

 rather peculiar character. A little below the Station on the road 

 to Wentworth are seen larg-e and small boulders of this cono;lomerate. 

 These are composed of diorites and jasper pebbles, firmly cemented 

 together. Some of the diorite pebbles are amygdaloidal and 

 amygdaloid — porphyritic. The amygdals are calcite and the 

 crystals red felspar. I have seen nothing like this conglomerate in 

 any other part of Nova Scotia. The whole of this band of rocks 

 must have been formed under strange conditions. In many res- 

 pects it seems to resemble the Cambrian Formation of H. M. 

 Geological Survey of Great Britain. Vide Hamsay^s Geology 

 of North Wales. At a farther distance of 100 feet north of the 

 Wentworth Station there is a remarkable cutting of rocks. This 

 cuttino^ is 1100 feet in lenirth. The walls on either side of the 

 track are equal, their maximum height is 28 feet. I give the 

 section witli approximate measurements. 



Obscure. Fed, 



1 . Dark green Crypto-crystalline Diorite 30 



2. Black soft Shale 20 



3. Diorites with shale parting. *..-. , 8 



