TRIASSIC (?) ROCKS OF DIGBY BASIN,—BAILEY. oor 
what pebbly. They are nearly horizontal, but with the frequent 
occurrence of what appears to be false bedding. Still farther 
north they become, within a few yards, quite coarse, while the 
colour changes from red to chocolate brown, more or less mottled 
with light grey. The paste is soft and clayey, but imbedded in 
the latter, in addition to masses of red sandstone, are numerous 
columnar blocks of trap. ‘These blocks are markedly prismatic 
and of considerable size, one of them, as shown in the accompany- 
ing sketch, projecting from the face of the bluff for over two 
feet. What is the age of these beds ? 
Evidently they are newer than the trap of which they con- 
tain imbedded columns. But how much newer? Possibly 
Quaternary. Regarded solely by themselves, there would seem 
to be no great objection to this conclusion, and it is favored by 
the occurrence in the vicinity of beds filled with trappean blocks 
which bear every evidence of being of this age, but the latter 
are of a different colour, and do not show that intimate associa- 
tion with the Triassic beds which characterizes the former. This 
association is well exhibited in the accompanying sketch, made 
upon the ground. (See Plate X, Fig. 2.) 
The lowest beds exposed at this point are brownish red sand- 
stones, horizontally stratified, and no doubt a continuation of 
those seen along the Granville shore. Resting upon them, but 
somewhat irregularly, are beds of purplish red conglomerate, 
which are also obscurely stratified, but seem to pass upwards 
into the very coarse conglomerate in which are contained the 
large blocks of trap. Between the two there is no clear line of 
separation as regards either colour or texture. The coarse beds 
are, however, exposed only for a few yards, while beyond them 
the finer beds, somewhat mottled, show at intervals for nearly a 
furlong. In this latter direction they form the shore beneath 
the high hill of columnar trap to which reference has been made: 
but owing to the land-slide which has affected the face of the 
latter, the relations of the one to the other are not easily to be 
made out. The purplish grey beds along the shore would seem, 
from their position, to extend beneath the trappean hill, but in 
