76 HONETMAN ON GEOLOGY OF GAY'S KIVER GOLD FIELD. 



It will be unnecessary for me to say anything on the relative 

 modes of dressing the herring, as practiced here where they are 

 frequently spoiled, and in Holland, where the very superior mode 

 of treatment gives them a delicious flavour. This has been 

 fully explained by T. F. Knight, Esq., in his valuable pamphlet. 

 One remark, however, I may venture with reference to the bar- 

 rels in which our Nova Scotia herrings are too frequently packed. 

 They are not only defective in material, but faulty in size, for 

 many of them are too large, so that the fish working loose, be- 

 come softened and spoil in long voyages to warm climates. 



A good system of inspection of both fish and packages, is a 

 great desideratum in this Province. A Chief Inspector, 

 thoroughly competent to teach our fishermen the best and most 

 improved systems of catching and cm'ing fish, would prove a 

 very valuable officer, if possessed of zeal and tact. His salary 

 should be paid out of the public revenue, and not by the fisher- 

 men, who would also be expected to pay the deputy inspectors. 

 I am very glad to see that Mr. Knight's pamphlet strongly 

 recommends the encouragement of Fishing Societies by the 

 Government, in the same way as Agricultural Societies, and for 

 similar ends, viz. : the improvement of implements and modes 

 of labour. By such wise and generous means as these shall a 

 great branch of industry be fostered, which shall not only add 

 vastly to the material wealth and naval importance of this 

 country, but will impart a tinge of manliness, hardihood, and 

 enterprise, which will ennoble its national character for all time. 



Art. IX. The Geology of Gay's River Gold Field. 

 By Rev. D. Honeyihan, D. C. L., F. G. S. 



(Read Dec. 3, 1866.) 



This peculiarly interesting Gold Field is situate on cither 

 side of the old Gay's river road, and about four miles from 

 Gay's river and Stewiacke river, or intermediate between those 

 two rivers. Approaching it from the Avest, my attention Avas 

 first specially attracted by an outcrop of lower carboniferous lime- 

 stone, containing the fossils characteristic of this horizoii. This 

 occurs on the roadside. Advancing, I observed argillitc strata 



