THE PICTOU COAL FIELD — POOLE. 309 



shales. The reverse dips ot" this locality correspond to the bottom 

 of the basin as disclosed by the workings of the Foord pit. Con- 

 tinuino- to the westward, surface indications of the existence of a 

 narrow synclinal are soon lost and only continuations of northerly 

 dips are known. These seem to be continuous until the Hard- 

 scrabble coal seam is reached on the Smoky Town road where 

 the side line of the Albion area crosses 3,700 feet from the north 

 corner of the area. From which point to the corner a southerly 

 dip is met with. The Hard-scrabble seam is a strong coal, 5' 3" 

 thick, dipping N. 37, E. 38''. It is immediately succeeded by a 

 reverse dip of 50", also shewing coal. The course of the inter- 

 vening fault or axis of syncline between these opposite dips agrees 

 closely in direction with tlie change in dip seen below Muir's on 

 McCulloch brook, and in the other direction with the opposite 

 dips of 50° and 70' lately found between Tupper's and Frasei"^ 

 Ogg (][uarry. Still the structure of the intervening ground cannot 

 be taken as regular for the narrow syncline inclining west in the 

 ^' swamp" workings of the Foord pit must be cut off by a heavy 

 fault probably directed towards the east end of Waters' hill if 

 tlie bottom of the basin at Tupper's is to be thus thrown to the 

 northward to agree with that at Hard-scrabble. However, on 

 the east side of the broken ground at Tupper's this seems to be 

 the case, but the structure even here is complicated and sufficient 

 is known of it only to suggest a probability that the structure 

 varies from that previously assumed and dotted on the Survey 

 map. An average inclination of 30° would place this seam 1,800 

 feet above the Main at the Forster pit, or nearh^ on the same 

 horizon as assumed for the Stewart seam on Potter's brook, both 

 underlaid at the same depth by a bed of oil shale. The ground 

 succeeding to the west is in part explained by the arrows on the 

 accompanjdng map, showing the dips down the McCulloch's 

 brook ; the black shales and overlying sandstones dipping north- 

 ward at Muir's and then the revei'se dip repeating the black 

 shales and coal on the Smoky-Town road, and the coarse grits and 

 sandstones on the brook. 



Where the Albion land line crosses the Smoky-Town road and 

 the road makes a sharp turn, a bed that was called an oil coal 



