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Barney's River. I have already incidentally referred to some of 

 the rocks of this section. Having recently made a thorough ex- 

 amination of the Basin of Barney's River, I shall give the results. 



Traversing the line of railway, I was led to make Dewar's 

 Furniture Factory siding my halting place. Here I was kindly 

 welcomed and hospitably entertained by the proprietor of the 

 Factory. Examining the dam and race which are situate on the 

 west branch of Barney's River, I was interested to find Silurian 

 strata where I had expected to find Carboniferous rocks. From 

 cursory observations I had been led to infer that this was a Car- 

 boniferous area, and that the Silurian of the east was bounded 

 by the eastern branch of the River. I had supposed Cameron's 

 mountain which was on the right of the road entering the Marshy 

 Hope, which is formed of lower carboniferous conglomerate, to be 

 a continuation of the carboniferous mountains which run on the 

 south Piedmont Valley. I had also supposed that the Middle 

 Silurian strata (A) which occur on the left side of the same 

 road was a continuation of other strata, occurring in the Marshy 

 Hope at the county line. See the railway traverse proceeding. 



Accompanied by A. Dewar, I examined the fields to the south 

 of the factory onward to the New Glasgow and Antigonish road 

 in search of the supposed connection of the Carboniferous Moun- 

 tains without success. We then observed Silurian strata in the mid- 

 dle branch, which led us to follow its course northward to the 

 railway bridge. We found Middle Silurian strata (B) all the 

 way, and, therefore, no connection between the Marshy Hope 

 Carboniferous Mountain and the Mountains of the west. We 

 then ascended McPhee's Mountain on the north side of the en- 

 trance of the Marshy Hope and found that it also was formed of 

 Lower Carboniferous Conglomerate, like Cameron's, on the south. 

 We afterward examined rocks in the east branch of Barney's 

 River and found that they were the connection between the two 

 mountains, being also conglomerates with the addition of igne- 

 ous rocks. The latter were found to occupy a central position, by 

 comparison with the other passage conglomerate outcroppings on 

 the road. The continuation of these mountains on the north 

 was also found to be of Lower Carboniferous age, Cameron's moun- 

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