50 HONEYMAX — GEOLOGY OF ANTIGON1SHE COUNTY. 



Section 1. — Malignant Cove to Sugar Loaf (Mountain.) 



At the Malignant Cove we have a patch of Lower Carboniferous 

 conglomerate, penetrated by trap (diorite) in a singular manner. 

 This conglomerate has been hardened by contact with the trap. 

 The conglomerate and trap in contact are exposed to a short distance 

 up the brook, below and above McDonald's grist mill. The con- 

 glomerate is then discontinued. The trap continues to a farther 

 distance and is succeeded by slates. Returning to the diorite 

 (trap) and crossing it westerly a short distance we take our course 

 again southward. 



The diorite extends to the summit of the Sugar Loaf, a distance 

 of one mile. A band of red slates coming from the west seems to 

 terminate abruptly on the back of the mountain. 



Section 2. — West of Malignant Cove to McNeil's Mountain. 



From the shore to the bridge over which the road passes, we 

 have diorite exposed in the brook. Under the bridge there is red 

 syenite. This extends up the brook to some distance. Turning to 

 the right, we come to an eminence of diorites, having a thin vein- 

 like band of red slates, six inches wide, which terminates here. 

 Following this slate westward to the mountain road, we find it in 

 broken patches alternating with the diorite. It occurs in similar 

 manner to some distance up the road, then it becomes a continuous 

 band extending toward the west. 



Proceeding along the road toward the mountain we cross 

 diorite (extending?). Succeeding this is the band of red slate of 

 which that of the Sugar Loaf is the eastern extension. This also 

 extends westward. 



Another part of this band extending to the rear of the Sugar 

 Loaf, becomes associated with syenite and intercepted. Crossing the 

 bridge of McNeil's Brook, beyond it we have associated with these 

 slates a boss of a peculiar Porphyry . The outcrop is about 28x28 

 feet. This porphyry was long familiar to me from the occurrence 

 of boulders on the shore. 



Proceeding onward and topographically upwards we have occ;> 



