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normal chiiructer of the Real's Cove section leaves no room to 

 doubt that, as previously stated, it is the Village section which 

 requires reversing. This transverse faidt is, then, the one 

 important dividing line for the entire district between the Home 

 Meadows and Real's Cove. West of this line we have a steep 

 but normal monocline, terminated against the granite on the 

 south by faulting ; while east of it a great displacement along 

 the northern border of the bedded rocks, accom[)anied by a 

 severe plicating strain, has completely inverted and dislocated 

 this end of the series. It is interestinjr to observe, also, that 

 this change or break occurs opposite the southwest angle of the 

 granite axis on the north, showing that this mass of granite is, 

 as previously pointed out, a dominant or controlling factor in 

 the structure of this region. The foregoing outline of the 

 structure of this narrow southern trough will, perha[)s, be more 

 readily or fully comprehended if its various phases are pre- 

 sented in succession, as follows : From the Home Meadows 

 to Real's Cove there was originally, or would have been but 

 for the faulting, one continuous syncline. This is broken 

 transversely by the Hockley Lane fault. The western half 

 remains an open syncline : but the greater part of its southern 

 slope is carried away by a strike-fault, which brings up the 

 underlying granite in that direction. The eastern half, owing 

 to the stronger compression, being in the narrowest part of the 

 granite vise, becomes an inverted isocline with the axial plane 

 dipping to the south ; and its northern side is partly carried 

 away and partly concealed by a strike-fault, bringing up the 

 Gfranite axis which these strata once covered. 



In attempting to trace the various strata of the Real's Cove 

 section westward, we find them passing at once beneath almost 

 continuous deposits of modified drift, including several high 

 kames. The slate scries and the more southern members of 

 the conglomerate series are thus hopelessly cut off. Rut the 

 mclaphyr and the strata immediately above it emerge sufficiently 

 from the sea of drift so that their relations to the extremity of 



