60 now ON LIMESTONE AND MARBLE. 



Counties. Bushels of lime burned. 



Sydney, 3,232 



Inverness, 6,486 



Halifax,* 26,050 



Lunenburg, 3,100 



YarnK)utli, 3,500 



Digby, • 



Guysborough,' 320 



Victoria, 4,730 



Queen's, 



Shelburne, 



Richmond, 406 



Cape Breton, 20,092 



Total, 136,848 



It is pei-iiaps remarkable that, notwithstanding the vast profusion 

 of limestone in the Province, a good deal of limestone is imported 

 from the West Indies, and much lime from New Brunswick. There 

 is no doubt that the native rocks yield with careful burning excellent 

 lime, and the cost of it is probably less than that from the foreign 

 rocks. At Windsor lime will sell at the kiln at three and sixpence 

 the barrel, and the price would be lower if there were more demand; 

 as it is I am told the New Brunswick lime costs more money : for 

 some reason however, the latter often obtains the preference, as was 

 the case in building the new library at King's College, Windsor, in 

 the neighbourhood of rocks aifording excellent lime, as will appear 

 by an analysis in a subsequent page. This is not, however, an in- 

 variable rule, and the Nova Scotian stone has been used and found 

 to give excellent lime : in the construction of the railway bridges on 

 the Ime between Halifax and Windsor, lime from the neighbourhood 

 of the latter place was employed and gave great satisfaction to the 

 engineer, who pronounced it to be a very " strong " lime. A lime- 

 stone found at Indian Point, Chester, of a d^ep blue colour, yields a 

 lime which becomes as hard and lasting as a cement : the rock is 

 much valued in Halifax for building up the arches of kilns, a situa- 

 tion in which poor limestone crumbles away while this remains quite 

 hard. The lime prepared from this rock was preferred to that from 

 New Brunswick in building the Wellington Barracks, in Halifax. 



*The greater part of the limo burnt in the city, Mr. Lang thinks, is from foreign 



limestone. 



