298 THE PICTOU COAL FIELD — POOLE. 



inouth of the cut by black shales an- 1 coarse coaly bands dipping 

 westward ly. These probably represent some of the A. to F. seams 

 of the section on the east side of fault and they are again exposed 

 still further east on the heavy down grade of 131 feet to the mile 

 on the railway entering Stellarton, and the black shales yet again 

 to the eastward on the river's bank below the sharp bend at the 

 old brickyard. Seam A of the report, next below the oil coah 

 was mven as of 11 feet in thickness, Imt where found under the 

 Brown row of houses at Asphalt it was only three feet. This 

 may have been the seam opened in 1860 below the Stellar oil 

 coal on McCulloch's brook and there found to be 5 feet thick. 

 But the lowest continuously traced bed was the oil coal. On the 

 west side of McCulloch's brook, 4 chains north of the railway, it 

 was found on edge near a pit where the dip of the strata was 

 N. 45 E., almost that of the Westville section ; and it was worked 

 under the brook and along the East bank with a dip of N. 65 W., 

 and then after passing through a step where it had an inclination 

 of N, 72 W. 19^. Thence it was followed to the old Middle river 

 road and sweeping round Mc Adam's cut fault, which is there lost 

 in an anticline, the crop thence onward was proved to conform 

 with the general direction of the Albion section as far as the main 

 street of Stellarton. On Coal brook it was worked longwall in 

 conjunction with the bat and coal associated with it. Where 

 opened near the modern Stellar street it yielded most richly, 

 samnles p'ivins 190 gallons of crude oil to the ton. Car water on 

 a small brook below the railway station probably marks where it 

 crosses towards the East river. 



Below the McKenzie pit coal and above the Stellar oil coal on 

 McCulloch's brook a three feet seam was opened and traced across 

 the old Middle river road at Black hill and eastward behind the 

 present Back mines to Coal brook and onwards across Acadia 

 avenue. 



All the coals of this locality in the neighbourhood of McCul- 

 loch's Ijrook seem to be of a (juality for which there is at present 

 no great demand, they run high in ash, but nevertheless contain 

 a reserve of fuel that some day will be utilized. 



The McKenzie pit was 45 feet deep, and from it bords were 



