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half of the distance at least was in the rocks which underlie the Mill- 
stone-grit. 
In this deep boring the log showed a thickness of about 200 feet 
of reddish shales and sandstones which is an interesting feature not 
found in any of the other borings. Below this to the bottom of the hole. 
the rock as recorded is for the most part a quartzite with conglomerates. 
The quartzite is apparently a fine-grained grayish sandstone and the 
great thickness of over 1000 feet of this rock is somewhat remarkable in 
this formation. 
In a boring made by percussion drill at Salina, Kings county, in 
1895, in a search for deposits of salt from which the saline springs of 
that locality were supposed to be derived, the rocks traversed were all 
apparently referable to the lower Carboniferous formation. The hole 
was carried down to a depth of 330 feet, the strata pierced being fine- 
grained red and gray sandstones which were highly inclined. These 
were interstratified with heavy beds of gypsum, and an almost continu- 
ous series of gypsum deposits, reaching a depth of 220 feet, was encoun- 
tered from 100 feet down, the last recorded rocks in the boring being 
red sandstone and conglomerates. 
Other borings were made nearly thirty years ago in the area occu- 
pied by the Albert shales, in the counties of Albert and Westmorland. 
These were practically confined to this peculiar series of rocks which were 
penetrated to a depth of over 1000 feet, the holes being bored at an 
angle of nearly forty-five degrees. Several other holes in this area were 
put down to a reported depth of about 2000 feet, but unfortunately the 
logs of these are not available. The same remark apples to borings in 
the Millstone-grit near Chatham on the lower part of the Miramichi 
River, which were made in the search for water so that much infor- 
mation which would have been of value in determining the thickness 
and character of the Carboniferous rocks in this area is lost. 
The series of borings made across Northumberland Strait in con- 
nection with the proposed tunnel from Cape Tormentine to Prince 
Edward Island, which were described in a paper before this Society in 
1895, penetrated rocks of upper or Permo-Carboniferous age entirely, 
and therefore do not greatly aid in elucidating the structure of the main 
Carboniferous basin of New Brunswick. 
It will thus be seen that a very large portion of the area is prac- 
tically unproved by boring, and that the important question of lower and 
workable coal seams in this province has not yet been thoroughly settled. 

