198 NOVA SCOTIAN GEOLOGY. — HONEYMAN. 



fulling mills ruins, Igneous rocks were observed, of lower carbon- 

 iferous age. 



A short distance above the bridge I examined a mass of lime- 

 stone of lower carboniferous aspect. J. McLellan who point- 

 ed it out to me, assured me that similar limestone had been 

 quarried in the high ground to the east of the mountain road 

 &nd used for building purposes. Farther on the road side and 

 mountain sides and summit, outcrops of metamorphic rocks ap- 

 pear, they are quartzites and argillites. No member of the Upper 

 Arisaig series has thus far been seen on the side of this metamor- 

 phic series. The carboniferous bands extend from the Antigonish 

 county line to the Marshy Hope road. We shall now examine 

 the south on Marshy Hope side. On the road below W. Robert- 

 son's and at the watering place for horses, the felsites of the 

 mountains appear after the carboniferous outcrops, on the left 

 side of the line of railway opposite. At Pushie's is an interesting 

 section of a steep side of the mountain, the rocks of this section 

 are felsites and argillite, the felsites containing micaceous hematite 

 with pyrite. Beyond this, there do not appear any rock exposures 

 until we come opposite the Marshy Hope station. Here at a 

 bridge over Barney's River, of the road entering the Sutherland 

 settlement, Middle Silurian strata (A) outcrop. Entering the 

 settlement we find argillites with quartzites on the side of a 

 tributary of Barney's River. On the summit of the mountain at 

 Sutherland's, Argillite outcrops. These resemble the James River 

 Fall rocks. The latter are in Antigonish county — 9 miles east, 

 from the Sutherland mountain outcrop. The Middle Silurian 

 (A) strata of the bridge extend into Antigonish county as far as 

 Lindsay's stables. At McLean's they are cut by the line of rail- 

 way, after this the railway passes them on the south. I dis- 

 covered these many years ago. Linguloe, Petraia and Gor- 

 nulites were also found in them from time to time. I was ac- 

 companied by the Rev. Mr. Goodfellow and his son, when I made 

 my recent examination. We found Petraia forresteri (Salter) in 

 the strata at Lindsay's stables. At McLean's we found abund- 

 ance of Cyclonema, Orthis and Lingula associated with the 

 characteristic Athyris (casts) and Crinoidea. From the moun- 



