200 NOVA SCOTIAN GEOLOGY. — HONEYMAN. 



mountains — these have been already referred to as on the south 

 of Piedmont valley and the line of railway. The mountains on 

 the south are an extension of the strata of Sutherland's moun- 

 tain. Strata B and B* lie between. 



Division 3 extends from French River to the west side of Irish 

 Mountain, a distance of twenty-seven and a half miles. Its 

 course is S. 55 W. It traverses first an area of Lower Carbon- 

 iferous rocks, then the Middle and Upper Silurian of Sutherland's 

 River, McLellan's Mountain and Brook, and Irish Mountain, ter- 

 minating in the Lower Carboniferous of East River. 



The Silurian formation retreats after it reaches the west branch 

 of French River, and forms the compound curve which connects 

 the Silurian area of the Barney's and French basins with those 

 of East River basin. The connection is very complicated, con- 

 sisting of Anticlinals, Synclinals and Monoclinals ; yet there 

 is no great difficulty experienced in resolving the complications 

 in consequence of the constant recurrence of well known charac- 

 teristic fossils and obvious structure. Vide Papers in Transac- 

 tions 1870-1-2. 



Section 2nd. 



This section begins where the preceding section ends. Di- 

 vision No. 1 proceeds S. 19 E., a distance of 4.3 miles to Fraser's 

 (sadler). Beginning in the Gypsum it passes through the Lower 

 Carboniferous to the Limestone of McLean's Lime Kiln at Spring- 

 ville, a little farther it enters D strata, with abundance of charac- 

 teristic fossils. At the late Rev. Angus McGillivray's pasture, it 

 enters C strata with fossils characteristic of this horizon. It then 

 passes through an obscure region, in which we may presume that 

 B' (Middle Silurian) strata are to be found according to the 

 analogy of the preceding section (No. 1). We then come to a 

 hill having fossils, which show that C strata have been left be- 

 hind. Reaching Fraser's (sadler) we come to the first discovered 

 outcrop of the iron ore of this division, or series, which we would, 

 for future reference, name Iron Ore, No. 1 , Division No. 2 of 

 the section running N. 59 E., 0.6 of a mile, passes through the 

 lowest strata of this series, which we shall, in the meantime, 

 designate A strata. It then traverses a wide dyke of igneous 



