82 F>ICTOU ISLAND — MACKAY 



Ft. In. 

 sandstone seen east of the point. Tlie Inchest 



rocks are on reefs about 400 yards ^vest of a 



wharf anil lobster factory near Hngli McLean's. 



Dip. 1<S2°-^ 14^ \ 58 



487 

 The section is now repeated descending. 



Section IV. 

 From ne-Ar West Point, eastward, in descending order. 



1. Gray sandstone, Nos. 14 and 15 above. Dip. 182° 



<W 140 



2. Light-gray, peljbl}', concretionary, calcareous rock - - 



3. Red marl 2 



4. Bluish-gray, knobby, impure limestone 2 



5. Red marl and sandstone. Dip 182 <^ 17^ 48 



6. Gray, rusty-weathering, tine sandstone in flaggy 



beds 36 



7. Red sandstone and marl. Dip 187" < 18" 9 



8. Gray limestone of fair quality, like that of Car- 



riboo and Cape John 1 6 



9. Red marl 8 



10. Gray limestone 1 



11. Red, shaly sandstone and marl with dark red 



blotches and green spots. Here, near a brook, 

 begins a beach and low bank of brownish-white 

 flne sand, which occupies the south shore of the 

 island for more than a mile. The relation of the 

 rocks next seen to eastward is conseipiently ob- 

 scure, but as the dip of the succeeding rocks is 

 similar, we may perhaps assume that they 

 directly underlie the red strata 46 



12. Gray sandstone, coarse and peljbly or flne and 



flaggy, alternating with bands of red marl and 

 sandstone with nodules of limestone. Dip 164' 

 "^ 13°. Extends 45 chains to eastward of the 



