HONEYMAX GEOLOGY OF ANT1GONISHE COUNTY. 47 



The mean amount of cloud showed a deficiency of .67, being 5.85. 

 Wind force was increasing, giving a mean velocity 8.40 miles, 

 though still 1 . 63 behind its normal ; and prevalent direction was 

 from due W. Rain fell only to the depth of 3.37 inches ; whereas 

 the 12 years shew an average of 4.80 inches. 2.1 inches of snow, 

 dispersed over 4 days, fell ; being exactly one-half of the normal 

 fall. 18 days were completely dry. 2 gales visited us, but 

 neither were violent. 



In temperature, December presented nothing extraordinary : its 

 mean 2 6° 21 was a very small fraction over the normal. For the 

 first time that winter the thermometer marked down to on the 

 30th, and registered — 4° on the morning of the 31st. The mean 

 pressure, though much diminished from last month, kept up to 

 29.791. The mean amount of cloud was nearly as is common, 

 6.60. Winds still prevailed from W. and increased much; at last 

 passing the normal speed, and resulting in a mean of 10.92 miles 

 per hour. The rain depth, 4.42 inches, was just 1 inch above the 

 12 years average ; but the 11 inches of snow fell short by over one- 

 third, or 5.7 inches. The total precipitation, 5.49 inches, slightly 

 exceeded the normal fall. But one gale was felt in Halifax, but it 

 was long and fierce. It began from N. E. on the evening of the 

 14th. At 1 a. m. of 15th it blew from N. 45.6 miles per hour. 

 Veered N. W. that day, and above 24 miles all day. On 16th, 

 still from N. W., it blew over 30 miles till noon, when it gradually 

 fell. The first sleighing was on the 18th, and we had 7 days of it 

 in all December. 



Art. V. — Nova Scotian Geology — Antigonishe County. 

 By the Rev. De. Honeyman, D. C. L., F. G. S., &c. 

 Director of the Provincial Museum, Halifax, iV. S. 



{Read May 10, 1875.) 



Introduction. 



In the session of 1865-6 I read a paper on the subject of my 

 present memoir, which was illustrated by a map. (Transactions.) 



