APPEXDIX — SUMMER CAMP AT LEPREAU BASIN. 89 



of the basin, also, on the shore of Mace's Bay, the ledges of 

 sandstone, laid bare at low tide, afford opportunities to collect 

 other species, which are rare in the enclosed waters of the basin. 



The headquarters of the camp were in a vacant house on a 

 mining property owned by Mr. Hanson, near the shore of the 

 basin. A large room served for a lecture and demonstration 

 room, and the rest of the house gave ample accommodation for 

 the party of members who attended the camp. 



The building we used had been put up by a mining company 

 which undertook to operate on the beds of coal which are found 

 in the Dadoxylon sandstone. The earliest work on these beds 

 was undertaken by Mr. Hanson at his boat landing, on the shore 

 of the basin, where two seams appear. The company referred to 

 above, after operating on the noi'thernmost of these seams, trans- 

 ferred their works to where the seam is exposed at the edge of 

 the bank, one hundred yards or more to the westward. Not being 

 satisfied with the position of the pit, which, being near the shore, 

 was subject to a heavy flow of water, the company undertook to 

 sink a new shaft some distance back from the bank, with the 

 intention of drifting south to the coal seam. This shaft was 

 entirely in the red shales of the Mispec group, which are here 

 let in behind the sandstones of the Little River group by a fault. 

 The sinking of this shaft, the cost of new buildings, and other 

 expenses which were incurred, crippled the company financially, 

 so that they were unable to carry their work further, and their 

 buildings and property have reverted to Mr. Hanson, the oi'iginal 

 owner and one of the stockholders. 



Operations on these seams have been undertaken at the middle 

 and at the eastern end of the basin by other lessees, but as these 

 mines are beyond the limit of the district examined by our party, 

 it is not necessary further to refer to them. 



Beside the tract immediately around Lepreau Basin, our 

 party spent a day in visiting Point Lepreau, which lies some 

 miles to the south of the basin. In some respects very little 

 was gained from this visit, but the members had a good oppor- 

 tunity of seeing the picturesque cliffs and shores around this 

 Point and of inspecting the lighthouse at its extremity. No 

 traces of aboriginal camping-grounds were found on the l)eaches, 

 either east or west of the point. Professor Ganong found 

 reason to think the shores around this point would prove an 

 excellent collecting ground for those in search of marine animals 

 and plants. 



