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made to improve the river road, which is certainly very steep 
where it passes over this quartzite and its associate rocks, but 
had to be abandoned on account of the hardness of the rocks. 
The outcrop on the river certainly indicates considerable thick- 
ness and flinty hardness. The second quartzite is exposed at T. 
Bogart’s, in great masses on the east side of the road. The road 
makers seems to have shunned this. It is of equal hardness with 
the preceding. It occurs 1.1 miles from it. The third quartzite 
is at Rice’s mill. This is fossiliferous (Diary, Thursday, 17th). It 
is more like a sandstone. It is metamorphic, but not in the same 
degree as the two preceding. It has cleavage but is of inferior 
hardness. Its extension is at Moose river, which is also fossili- 
ferous (Diary, Thursday, 24th). This is highly metamorphic and 
of equal hardness with Quartzites (1 and 2). 
5. Micaceous Slate-——A thick band of highly micaceous and 
black Slate succeeds the first diorite (3) of the Moose river road 
section. The outcrop of this is very striking. It looks like 
roofing slate and divides very regularly into rhomboidal forms. 
When split the surfaces are coated with scales of mica, giving 
an unctuous touch. 
Another micaceous black slate was observed in connection with 
the great quartzite of Bear River. 
These slates very much resemble the micaceous strata of Nic- 
taux Falls, except in compactness. As this properly may be 
viewed as accidental, the resemblance may be regarded as indi- 
cating the co-temporarity of the Nictaux slates, which I was led 
to regard as of age prior to the strata with which they are ~ 
associated. Vide Paper in Transactions. 
STRATA. 
Argillites.—In describing these I shall sketch the Moose River 
section. 
1st.—We have the red and grey strata north of the wharf of 
Clementsport. The same appears in sections on the Digby side 
of Bear River, at the Victoria Bridge. This is above diorite, 
(1.) They are also seen in Deep Brook, at Ditmars farm, be- 
tween Victoria Bridge and Clementsport. Here they extend, 
from the post road to the beach of Annapolis basin. They 
