HONEYMAN NOVA SGOTIAN GEOLOGY^ 117 



At Hammond's Plains a large and beautiful specimen of limonite 

 was found in the drift by a man when digging a well. It is sup- 

 posed that this was transported from the Cobequid Mountains, 

 (Londonderry Mines.), 



Passing on to the Station of the Railway at Bedford, about 9 

 miles N. W. of Point Pleasant, I was joined by Mr. Frank West. 

 We examined the road cuttings around Bedford, and found 

 abundance of boulders of syenite and amygdaloid. We did not 

 find any granite boulders. 



I then made an examination of several drift cuttings on the lines 

 of railway, commencing at the Windsor Junction. In this ex- 

 amination I was accompanied by Mr. Andrew Jack. 



In the extensive cuttings of drift at the Junction we found 

 abundance of syenites, diorites, porphyries, and amygdaloids. The 

 amygdals were of considerable variety of zeolites. I found a piece 

 of brown agate jasper, with cacholong. This is like specimens in 

 the museum from Parrsboro. I also found a boulder of a strange 

 granite — it is red and the mica beautifully green. Farther east on 

 the line near Fletcher's, are deep drift cuttings. In these were 

 found massive boulders of amygdaloid. Still farther to the east, in 

 the clay of Enfield Pottery yard, we also found syenites and 

 amygdaloids. This was our ultima thule in this direction in 1873. 



The point reached on the line of railway is on the line of section 

 22 miles N. of Point Pleasant ; 25 miles N. W. of Three Fathom 

 Harbour; and 43 miles from Five Islands. This consequently is 

 the nearest point from which the amygdaloids of the brick clay 

 could come. From Windsor Junction I examined the drift cuttings 

 as far as Beaver Bank Station. In these the amygdaloids were 

 remarkably abundant. In one of these the amygdals were of 

 beautifully radiated me%otype. 



This was the farthest point that I reached on the line of railway 

 in 1873, a distance of about 15 miles N. W. from Point Pleasant, 

 and 45 miles from Blomidon. 



Blomidon is consequently the nearest point from which the 

 amygdaloids of Beaver Bank could! come. 



We have thus overwhelming evidence of extensive transportation 



