318 THE PICTOU COAL FIELD — POOLE. 



Acadia Company's borehole No. 2 of 1878 at a point some 900 

 feet due west beyond the west corner of the Vale area lease :— 



Ft. In. 



Surface clay 26 



Shale 1 10 



Soft blue shale 54 3 



Carbonaceous shale 9 4 



Oil shale 2 



Light grey shale 46 



Dark shale 17 6 



Light shale , 9 6 



Dark shale 85 6 



Lisrht arenaceous shale 11 



Sandstone -. 3 6 



Sandstones and arenaceous shales, light colored 94 



Goal, one inch thick, included in the last 30 feet 



Dark arenaceous shales and sandstones, strong band . . 25 



Liffht arofillaceous shales 16 



Dark carbonaceous shale 8 



Lio-ht shale 12 



Dark carbonaceous shale 40 



Shale with ironstone nodules 24 6 



Carbonaceous shale 10 



Light arenaceous shale. Some of these beds are mot- 

 tled with red stains 15 6 



Sandstones 23 



Light shale 4 10 



Sandstone, in parts covered with petroleum 7 6 



Light shale 29 8 



Dark hard carbonaceous shale, burns freely 8 



Dark carbonaceous shale 9 



Goal, good 1 



Lio'ht shale 1 6 



Sandstone 18 



Light shale 17 6 



Coal. Widow Chisholm seam, worked 1 



