116 HONEYMAX NOVA SCOTIAN GEOLOGY. 



Five Islands, Two Islands and Blomidon, respectively 68, 70,. and 

 69 miles distant. 



Three Fathom Harbour is 15 miles east of our starting point, 

 Point Pleasant. This was the farthest point of our investigation in 

 this direction in 1873. My associates up to this point were Messrs. 

 J on e s , Stirling and H. "Waddell. 



From Point Pleasant, on our line of section, I now turn inland, 

 on the same side of Halifax Harbour. Mr. "Waddell found speci- 

 mens of syenites and triassic amygdaloids, in an excavation at 

 Fort Massey. I found syenites, diorites, porphyries and amygda- 

 loids, with zeolites, in cuttings of the drift of the Citadel Hill. 



From George's Island, in the middle of the harbour, I received 

 in the museum a large and beautiful boulder of amygdaloid, with 

 amygdals of heulandite. On the eastern side of the harbour at 

 the Eastern Passage, Mr. Stirling found specimens of syenite and 

 amygdaloid, with chalcedonic amygdalB, having beautiful moss-like 

 figures (moss agates.) 



In the clay banks and beach between Mount Hope asylum and 

 Dartmouth, I found numerous boulders of syenite, diorite, and 

 amygdaloid. 



In one of the same banks Mr. Stirling found a large boulder of 

 Maccan Mountain granite, about 30 lb. weight. In an excavation 

 on the hill he also found a boulder with a beautiful calamite, from 

 the carboniferous formation in the north. 



We see on the road sides in Dartmouth several immense syenite 

 boulders, whose home is the Cobequid Mountains. 



Mr. James has found a large boulder of amygdaloid, pophyritic 

 diorite, similar to that of "Wentworth conglomerate (Now 1) I.C.R. 

 — Vide paper on the I. C. R., in the Cobequids, 1875- 



In an excavation on the side of the Lawrencetown road, near 

 its junction with the Preston road, I found large and fine boulders 

 of amygdaloid. This point is about 5 miles N. of Point Pleasant. 



In the road cuttings at the Richmond Station of the Railway, I 

 found several boulders of syenite. 



On Navy Island, Bedford Basin, near Dartmouth side, syenites, 

 diorites, porphyries and amygdaloids are abundant. 1875. 



