Gold-bearing Mctaniorpliic Series. — Woodman. 369 
caused in part the greater alteration of less typical slates of the 
western half of the province. Hence it seems best to retain 
Dr. Ami's term for this. Meguma is a Micmac word, root of 
the native term for their own tribe ; hence appropriate for rocks 
occupying so large a part of Nova Scotia. 
Since the last discussion of terms with Mr. Faribault, he 
has signified his adoption of them by employing them in a mod- 
ified form in a paper on deep mining, printed in a special min- 
ing number of a weekly journal called the Nova Scotian, pub- 
lished at Halifax. He there speaks of the lower group as the 
"Goldenville quartzite group," and of the upper as the "Hal- 
ifax slate group." While useful in calling the attention of local 
mining men to a new nomenclature, and acting thus as a tran- 
sition phrase, standing between an old order and a new, the 
descriptive parts of the terms appear to be unnecessary if the 
locality names are retained, and not in accord with the best 
usage; hence I would still propose the nomenclature advocated 
above. 
No name has been given to the intermediate group of Bailey, 
as in the eastern part of the province it certainly is not separ- 
ate member; and I have not yet been able to trace it directly 
into the more metamorphosed strata of the west so closely 
as to feel sure that it should be given a separate designation 
there. 
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