IN NOVA SCOTIA—FLETCHER. 325 
“Very nearly on the strike they are again met with on a 
brook on the property of Mr. James Small, on the road to Little 
Harbour, Merigomish. The one locality is as much as three 
miles from the other; but the botryoidal coneretionary limestone 
layers in both are so peculiar and so strikingly like in appear- 
ance, and in their relation to any overlying seam of coal, that 
no doubt can be entertained of their equivalence ; and I have no 
evidence yet to shew that the mass is here of less volume than 
farther to the west.” 
Another exposure of these rocks, 1,372 feet in thickness, 
occurs at Alma mills bridge on the Middle River, beyond which 
they reappear in Rogers Hill and Mount Dalhousie at the 
eastern end of the Cobequil range, also at the head of River 
John, and in considerable thickness on Waugh River. To the 
eastward, they have been followed through Quarry and Olding 
Islands to the Big Island of Merigomish. 
In tracing them west from New Glasgow to the Middle 
River, they appear along the northern flank of Waters Hill to 
directly overlie the altered Devonian rocks of that locality. 
Exposures would seem to give direct proof of the unconformity 
of the conglomerate with the rocks of the Millstone Grit, which 
unconformity we should naturally have expected from the pre- 
sence of pebbles derived from rocks of the latter division in the 
former. 
Of these rocks Gesner wrote thus in 1836 :?. “ The red sand- 
stone * * * covering the great coal basin of Pictou * * * 
is often associated with beds of conglomerate * * * these 
towards the surface seem to pass insensibly into a red soft sand- 
stone, which from its ready disintegration yields a rich and 
fertile soil.” At the same time, however, he correlates the 
Mountain Limestone with the Permian of Caribou Harbour and 
Pictou Island; while certain fossils of that limestone at Economy 
and Merigomish he calls Belemnites and Ammonites. 
1 Logan and Hartley—-Geol. Survey Report 1866-69, pages 13 to 15 and 64 to 6¢. 
? Geology and Mineralogy of Nova Scotia, pages 141, 134, 126 and 29. 
