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metamorphic characters are seen at many points, large intrusive masses 
of felsite forming conspicuous features. 
Farther inland up the St. John river, masses of reddish and greyish 
felsite with diorites and some granites are closely associated with fos- 
siliferous slates, portions of which are much hardened and schistose, but 
show the presence of numerous fossils in which are included several 
varieties of Orthis, Rhynchonella, and Bellerophon and in some layers 
remains of plant stems. And along the lower part of Jones creek, which 
enters the St. John river near the upper end of Long reach, frequent 
occurrences of fossiliferous sediments, in part hard and silicious or 
schistose and felspathic are seen in which well-defined fossils occur. 
These remains are clearly of Silurian age. 
Interesting occurrences of fossils are found in the rocks about Back 
bay and in the vicinity of the peninsula of Latete. Here in certain 
respects the sediments and associated igneous rocks are very similar 
to those seen on Deer and Campobello islands. These islands are 
on the same general strike as the rocks of Latete and are apparently 
practically of the same horizon. 
From the outcrops observed at Back bay collections of fossils 
have been made at several times. From a collection made in 1883-4 
as many as eighteen species of organisms were obtained, in which 
were no less than three species of Orthis, several of Strophomena and 
Strophodonta, an Atrypa, and a number of trilobites. Of the 
species found in these rocks, the opinion was expressed by Dr. J. F. 
Whiteaves, that they belong presumably to about the same horizon 
as the Guelph limestone of Ontario. This would make their age 
correspond with the upper part of the Silurian series. 
The fossiliferous slates of Back bay are often reddish or purple, 
grey or greenish. In places they show a marked degree of schistosity 
and are cut by masses of greenish diabase. In places also bands of 
altered limestone are interbedded with the altered slates. A collec- 
tion of fossils from the ledges south of Back bay and from somewhat 
similar ledges at Mill cove a short distance farther west, shows in a 
marked degree the schistose nature of these fossil bearing rocks. 
The examination of the organisms from several points around the 
shores of Latete head, shows clearly that they all have the same 
upper Silurian facies, and a close study of the sediments them- 
selves indicates that a marked degree of similarity exists between 
the rocks of the Latete localities and those of Frye island and 
of L’Ktang. In the latter of these are well-developed areas 
of crystalline limestone interbedded with the purple and green 
slaty schists. Of these limestones the opinion was held by certain 
observers for some years, that from their physical characters they might 
