320 THE PICTOU COAL FIELD — POOLE. 



It flows over out-croppings of coal that were worked by A. Fraser 

 in 1S40, and subsequently prospected by Mr. Kir by and others 

 W'ho found the o-round much disturbed, but with a general form 

 of a basin. Sir William Logan describes the locality on pages 44 

 and 45 of his report, and Mr. H. Poole in these Transactions, Vol. 

 I, page 43, refers to the opening where Fraser worked as Wright's 

 adit, shewing 4 feet 7 inches of good coal containing 17.5 V of 

 ash. The adit was driven north under the road for a hundred 

 yards and then turned west and was affected by the faults, which 

 shew in the small brook, w^hich joins Potter's a little lower down 

 and cut ofl" the coal in that direction. The dip at the adit was- 

 N. 10 E. IS". Up the brook, parallel with the adit, a level was 

 driven as low as the bed of the brook would allow for some 140 

 feet to a disturbance, and workings to the deep continued for 

 some 40 feet on an inclination, which was succeeded by 20 feet, 

 of flat ground, and then met a sharp upturn which cut ofl* the coal 

 to the north-east. If a small patch is repeated in that direction 

 it has not been found. Above the adit 10 chains on the same 

 side of the brook, sandstone beds having a dip of N. 80 W. 35° 

 overlie a foot of coal, and at three chains higher black shales 

 appear lying N. 40 E. 5", while in the opposite bank the grey 

 shales dip 12° to the westward of south. 



Further up the brook, 15 chains from the adit, Kirby's pits 

 near the main road cut a foot of coal, which is thought to be the 

 same as the seam found lower down. Here the dip is N. 25 E 

 15°. The adit is on the north side of an arch of coal that repeats- 

 the same seam dipping southw^ard under the old telegraph road. 

 Here it also was worked from the brook on both sides to the 

 north only some 120 feet, and to the south one hundred or more 

 yards, the inclination being about one in three. An east and 

 west disturbance again at 400 yards to the south brings the seam 

 to the surface where worked by A. McKay in 1840, and where it- 

 w^as 3 feet 6 inches thick and dipped N. 60, W. 13°. On the 

 same range later small workings found the inclination to the 

 south, giving an impression that down the brook this group of 

 seams may exist in greater quantity, especially as a crop of a coal 



