THE PICTOU COAL FIELD — POOLE. 261 



no search has been made, nor can it be said thai: the float is of 

 a quahty to warrant it. To the westward these rocks, including 

 limestone and gypsum, occur under the New Glasgow conglomer- 

 ate of Green Hill near the church. 



How far eastward this series extends is in doubt, but the 

 narrow slip of disturbed brecciated mottled red sandstone 

 lying on the west side of the East riv^er, between the con- 

 glomerate escarpment and the North fault may be of this age 

 and if it 1 e then probably are also the rocks at D. McPherson's 

 and the Pent road on the border of the North fault going 

 towards the Vale colliery. 



Millstone Grit. 



According to the Geological Map of 1869 heavy faults on all 

 sides separate the Millstone Grit from the Coal Measures^^l Mr. 

 Fletcher in his report recalls to mind that Mr. Richard Brown 

 successfully contended that these groups were found conform- 

 able in Cape Breton as they are in Pennsylvania. There can be 

 no doubt they are so at the Joggins, and Mr. Fletcher is doubt- 

 less correct in saj'ing nowhere as yet have they I'cen found un- 

 conformable in Nova Scotia Proof to the contrary has certainly 

 not been found in the Pictou coal field, either at Westville or 

 Stellarton where the transition beds are best exposed. 



The coal measures of the Albion section are preceded in 

 descending order V>y beds that repeated examination along the 

 line of the reputed McLeod fault failed to find otherwise than 

 conformable. Hence, as there seemed to be no natural division 

 a limit to the coal measures had to lie assumed, and the top of the 

 Millstone Grit has been taken at the small seam of coal 30 feet 

 below the Fraser oil coal,^-' which Mr. Hartley in error puts at 

 15 feet 2 inches. 



In the section given by Mr. Hartley in descending order from 

 this horizon, a series of coal seams are shewn, liut not one has 

 been since exploited and proven to be of the thickness named. A 

 well pierced stratum C, but found only two layers of coal, each 



Acad. Geol., p. 285. Sup., p. 51. Gilpin, Trans. Vol. IV., p. 138. Honeynian, ibid, Vol. V, p. 213. 

 Geol. Report, (1) p. 59. (2) Pages 70 and 76. 



