48 H0NEYMAN — GEOLOGY OF ANTIGONISHE COUNTY. 



This paper and map showed the results of amateur work in connec- 

 tion with the views of others. Since then — in the summer of 1868, 

 I made a thorough survey of a great part of the County in the ser- 

 vice of the Canadian Survey. I also reviewed a part of this work in 

 1871. These examinations, with others connected, made large 

 accessions to our knowledge of Nova Scotian Geology, and led us 

 to see the great imperfections of our amateur work of 1866. 



After all this work, difficulties still existed in the way of under- 

 standing certain parts of the Geology of Arisaig township — the 

 part of this county which is the most interesting to the geologist 

 and palaeontologist. These difficulties have been dissipated by the 

 revelations made during my examination of the I. C. R. section of 

 the Cobequid Mountains. This is my apology for the production 

 of this memoir " On Antigonishe Geology." 



Antigonishe County 

 is named after the county town Antigonishe. It was formerly 

 called the County of Sydney. It is the north-east County of Nova 

 Scotia proper. It is bounded on the west by Pictou County ; on 

 the south by the County of Guysboro ; on the north by Northum- 

 berland Strait ; and on the east by St. George's Bay and the Strait 



of Canso. 



Arisaig 



is familiar to the Canadian geologist as a " household word." The 

 use of the word in Nova Scotian geology has been somewhat vague 

 and unsatisfactory. I have elsewhere proposed to give it an exact 

 application, and to use it in its widest sense — as indicating 



Arisaig Township. 



This is the north-west township of the county. It is bounded 

 on the east by Morristown township ; on the west it is bounded by 

 the County line and Pictou county. 



A great part of Arisaig is still covered by forest, and thus far 

 in a geological sense it is largely obscure. The soil is generally 

 fertile, as might be expected from the prevalence of feldspathic and 

 calcareous rocks. The numerous brooks which intersect it in vari- 



