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Art. I. — Nova Scotian Geology — Annapolis County con- 

 tinued. — By the Rev. D. Honeyman, D. C. L., 



Curator of the Provincial Museum and Professor of 

 Geology in Dalhousie College and University. 



(Read Nov. 10, 1880.) 



INTRODUCTION. 



About the middle of July last I resumed my investigations in 

 the Geology of Annapolis county. My main object, however, 

 was the investigation of the geological relations of the Iron de- 

 posits of Moose river. They have already been connected and 

 correlated with the Iron deposits of Nictaux. Both have been 

 assigned to the Devonian period. 



I have in a preceding paper referred the Nictaux deposits to 

 the Middle Silurian age (Transactions, 1877-8), and for the time 

 in a manner separated them from the Iron deposits of Moose 

 river. I was prepared, however, for a reunion of both. The fact 

 that the gigantic trilobitc, Asaphus ? ditmarsiw, was found in the 

 magnetite of Moose river had led to the belief that it too was 

 of Middle or possibly Lower Silurian age. 



DIARY. 



Tuesday, 16th. — On my way to Moose river I observed gran- 

 ites to the south of the Lawrencetown Railway station. This is 

 almost due north of the approximate western limit of the Nic- 

 taux Iron bearing: strata. From Lawrencetown onward to 

 Annapolis the only rocks observed outcropping are granites. 



I had an opportunity of observing the granites to a distance 



