70 HONEY.MAN GEOLOGY OF ANTIGONISHE COUNTY. 



As far as I can recollect, in the summer of 1859, one of the 

 McDonalds' of the North Grant, Antigonishe, brought to me a 

 specimen of highly bituminous shale, from an exposure found 

 ■while searching in the woods for ship timber. At this time I was 

 residing in Antigonishe. I accordingly visited the locality and saw 

 a large outcrop of black shiny bituminous shale, associated with 

 a dark brown shale equally bituminous. In these I found abun- 

 dance of scales of palceo?iiscus and various forms of lepidodendira. 

 {Dawson's Fossil Plants of Canada. Geological Survey of 

 Canada.) The discovery of the Fraser Oil Coal in the Pictou Coal 

 Field, and its uses, encouraged the expectation that this shale might 

 ba available for the manufacturing of Coal Oil, or that something 

 highly bituminous, or coal itself might be associated with it. This 

 expectation induced the discoverer to undertake the w r ork of explor- 

 ation, associated with John Campbell, Esq., of Dartmouth, who is 

 well known as an indefatigable and successful explorer of the gold 

 and coal fields of Nova Scotia. This work continues up to the 

 present time, and is to be continued during the coming season. 

 Mr. Campbell reports as having discovered as follows : 



5. Coal — 4 feet or more. Beds, thickness not ascertained. 

 4. Coal — 4 to 6 feet. Beds, thickness unknown. 

 3. Coal — 3 feet 6 inches. Beds, unknown. 280. 

 2. Coal — 5 feet 9 inches. 



r Coal— 6 feet. 

 1. < Shale— 3 feet. 



( Coal— 2 feet. 

 Coal— 28 to 30 feet. 



Continuing the section we have to the south of Morristown 

 Lakes, Cribbean's Head, a large exposure of Lower Carboniferous 

 strata, containing casts of trees and calamites. Near Mclsaac's 

 Point, we have reached the lowest strata of the south side of the 

 carboniferous basin. At Mclsaac's Point we have an outcrop of 

 rnetamorphic slates and diorite (igneous.) 



This is the eastern terminus of a formation which extends into 

 the township of Dorchester in the form of an isosceles triangle, its 

 base commencing at a distance of 1£ miles from Antigonishe(Town), 



