NOVA SCOTIA GEOLOGY — HONEYMAN. 32.3 



4 Worm burrows. 



5 Bird tracks. Tringa minuta. 



6 Imbedded egg cases of Raia. (Pisces.) 



7 Mollusca. Natica heros. 



8 Moactra solidissima. 



9 My a arenaria. 



10 Saxicava (?) 

 Crustacea. 



11 Crabs. 



12 Shrimps. 



13 Echinoidea. Echinus. Echinarachnius, &c. 

 We have thus the "Recent" (Cene) lying directly on Post- 

 pliocene drift. The succession is seemingly irregular. The arrange- 

 ment corresponds, however, with that occurring at the other parts 

 of the bay, and other drift accumulations on the shore, on to 

 Thrum Cap, at the mouth of Halifax harbour. The clays andsands 

 of the Champlain period appear to be wanting. That either 

 these or their equivalents are absent, we have no reason to sup- 

 pose. That the Red Heads and other drift banks of the shore 

 are the extremities of the drift transportation, I do not believe. 

 I rather believe that it may have extended to a considerable dis- 

 tance, and that it has been denuded to a great extent since the 

 Glacial period, by the ceaseless action of the Atlantic. On this 

 supposition the Pleistocene drift may now underlie the Banks, 

 and be overlaid by Champlain clays and sands, with overlying 

 clays and sands of the present period. Returning I examined 

 the two glacial exposures already referred to. The courses of 

 the two are parallel, befng S. 10 W., N. 10 E. mag., or N. 8W, 

 S. 8 E, true. 



The drift cuttings on the road side at Jeddore yielded, as was 

 expected, boulders of syenite and diorite, also a beautiful diorite 

 amygdaloid boulder, having sub-spherical amygdals of reddish 

 quartz (chalcedonic). Between Jeddore and Musquodoboit Har- 

 bour no drift cuttings of this kind were observed. At the latter 

 place syenite and diorite boulders were again collected. 



About a mile farther, at Petpiswick, extensive outcrops of 



