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THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. 



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chocolate coloured rocks appears to be due to the presence of oxides 

 of iron and manganese, derived from the Huronian system in the 

 adjacent hills. 



Lower Carboniferous Series in Kings Co. 



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1. Busal Conglomerate resting on the Cambrian or 

 Huronian slates. 



2. Break in the section (probably shales). 



3. Lower Conglomerate, hard heavy beds. 



Limestone and Gypsum — covered by Conglomerate 

 and underlaid by dark grey shales, somewhat bitu- 

 menous. Fossils — Tereoratida saccuhis, Productus, 

 etc., in the limestones ; Cyclopteris Acadica, Lepido- 

 dendroncorrugatum and Fish remains in the shales. 



Grey sandstones and dark gray shales, somewhat 

 bitumenous. Fossils — Lepidodendron corrugatum, 

 Cyclopteris Acadica, etc. 



Bright-red sandstones, and brown-red shales and 

 sandstones. Fossils — several species of fucoids and 

 fragments of land plants. (Brine springs rise from 

 these beds). 



7. Upper Conglomerate (or " Kennebeckasit 

 merate ") hard massive beds. 



Conglo- 



8. Eed-brown arinaceous shales and Bed sandstones. 



Nos. 4, 5, and 6 ? which are comparatively soft, are frequently 



