THE PICTOU COAL FIELD— POOLE. 811 



It has already been shown that the northerly dip of the Albion 

 Section ends 10 chains north of the Foord pit where a narrow 

 syncline succeeds, of which the opposite dip in its westwardly 

 course terminates within a short distance by a gradual deflection 

 iirst to the westward and ultimately by faults, one coursing east 

 and west an apparent extension of the Bridge fault, and other 

 two north and south parallel to Muir's slants. 



To the eastward measures of higher horizons than those of the 

 syncline continue in ascending series to be exposed up McLellan's 

 brook as the Foord pit dip N 40° E becomes deflected moi^e and 

 more to the eastward, and divergent from the opposite southerly 

 dip which is continued across the East river. It is seen at the 

 mouth of Potter's brook on the north side, and again 7 chains up 

 the brook where Potter's brook fault crosses, then the dip of the 

 measures is deflected to the east, and ultimately to the northward, 

 thus bringing up in the trough of the field a knoll of measures ' 

 of which the lowest correspond probably with those exposed on 

 McLellan's la-ook near where the east side line of the Albion 

 area crosses that brook. The Survey on page 49 gives no detailed 

 section of these black and grey shales nor, indeed, of the measures 

 lying between the top of the Foord pit shaft and the base of 

 Section 4, page 23, at Black's mill site, except in the reference to 

 the 3' 6" seam. 



Chapel knoll. — The northern rise of the strata opposite the 

 Foord pit forms a protuberance in the bottom of the basin. It 

 is crowned by the Roman Catholic Chapel, and may conveniently 

 be designated as Chapel kiioll. It has its longer axis extending 

 about due east from a point northward of the stone retaining 

 walls of the Albion branch railway, thence over the Hopewell 

 and New Glasgow road across the river and beyond the crop of 

 the Stewart seam at Connolly's pond probably to the New Glas- 

 gow and Marsh high-road. At and beyond the pond the dip 

 of the measures averages N. 80 E. 30°, but when the road is 

 crossed the dip of the sandstone quarry ridge is due north, so 

 that a fault, probably running north and south, terminated 

 Potter's brook section at this point. 



The heavy faults met wdth in the Foord pit east levels increase 



