THE PICTOU COAL FIELD — POOLE. 293 



to the second or Scott pit seam in the Drummond area was dry 

 and altogether in grey shale and fireclay. The thickness of the 

 intervening strata was at the Black Diamond furnace pit 227 

 feet, and at the Drummond drift 276 feet at rifdit angles to the 

 inclination. 



In the Transactions for 1867 Mr. Haliburton speaks of coal 

 and fireclay having been found by explorers a mile to the south 

 of the Drummond area, but no discoveries of value have been 

 since made in the ground referred to, prospecting is difficult on 

 account of the great depth of the superficial deposits. Nothing 

 has been done since then at Culton's adit which is six chains out- 

 side the south corner of the Drummond area, and where the coal 

 was said to be six feet thick but faulted. The workings of the 

 Drummond Mine in the proximity leave little doubt of the 

 broken character of the ground and the (juality of the seam. 



Of the underlying seams in this neighbourhood indication of 

 one only was got in a trial pit dipping S. SO E , while behind the 

 Black Diamond slope the crops of two seams were opened both 

 being of a quality to discourage development, except it may be 

 in the central portion of the section where an improvement in 

 quality may be looked for in depth. 



Albion Section.— he-d:\mg the Westville section on the west 

 side of McCulloch's brook, this division is entered on crossing the 

 great fault that brings to the surface strata from a depth of half 

 a mile. 



It was in this portion of the field that coal was first discovered 

 early in the century.* Since then it has been well exploited and 

 found to extend from a point 5 chains west of the west corner of 

 the lease of four square miles known as the Albion area, thence 

 over the McCulloch's brook and across the East river without a 

 dislocation of serious moment as far as the pit on Grant's farm 

 23 chains N., 80 W. from the south corner of the same area- 

 Beyond this point the continuity is lost, and it is probable a fault 

 of some 286 feet — see page 50 of Logan— here comes in accom- 

 panied by a turn which changes the direction of the dip to nearly 



* Dr. PateTson's History of Pictou County. 



