. The geology of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, or, Acadian geology [microform]. Geology; Geology, Stratigraphic; Paleontology; Geology, Economic; Géologie; Géologie stratigraphique; Paléontologie; Géologie économique. ai li I M 90 Tin; LAUHKNTIAN. actions of the Neva Scotia Institute, and tlic Journal of the Geological Society of London. I must, in like manner, decline to receive as of Laurentian age the felsitie and otlier rocks of Cape Breton, referred to tliis system hy Mr Fletcher in tlic latest Report of tiie Geological Survey. I would except those of St Anne's Mou
. The geology of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, or, Acadian geology [microform]. Geology; Geology, Stratigraphic; Paleontology; Geology, Economic; Géologie; Géologie stratigraphique; Paléontologie; Géologie économique. ai li I M 90 Tin; LAUHKNTIAN. actions of the Neva Scotia Institute, and tlic Journal of the Geological Society of London. I must, in like manner, decline to receive as of Laurentian age the felsitie and otlier rocks of Cape Breton, referred to tliis system hy Mr Fletcher in tlic latest Report of tiie Geological Survey. I would except those of St Anne's Mountain, the iitho- logical resemblance of which to the Lower Laurentian of Canada is indisjuitable, and the evidence that they may be of this age has certainly been much strengthened by the recent observations of Mr Fletcher.* Specimens, and the observations of Mr Brown and Mr Campbell and others, induce me also to believe that in the little island of St Paul's, <and in some parts of Northern Cape Breton, we may have Fig. 17.— Canal Sijitem of Euxoon— a continuation of the rocks referred by Mr Murray to the Laurentian in Newfoundland. With these exceptions, 1 have not seen in Nova Scotia, unless in travelled boulders, any rock that I could believe to be lithologically equivalent to the Laurentian of Canada, nor have 1 found any stratigraphical evidence of the occurrence of such rocks. 14. COMPARISONS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES. The now facts above stated in relation to the older formations, somewhat modify the statements made in Acadian Geology as to the • I observe, in some recent papers on this subject, the statcmen*- that I had held th^se old rocks of Cnpe Hreton to be intrusive syciiitos newer than the Carboniferous ago. On tiie contrary, I have held tiiat tlie Metinnorpliie region of northern Cape Hreton fovined "a rocky ishmd in tlie seas of tiie t'arbtinifenins ; The only fouiuhition known to nie for tills statement is my reference of
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