322 THE PICTOU COAL FIELD — POOLE 



the supposed equivalent of tlie Mill-race seam, has not been dis- 

 covered on the brook. On its eastern outcrop it is apparently 

 underlaid at a depth of some 25 feet by an eleven inch seam 

 there exposed. Of the ground nearer New Glasgow in which 

 the East river pit, mentioned on page 46, disclosed an 8 feet 

 seam nothing more is known, prospectors have been deterred by 

 its assumed broken condition from further exploring its struc- 

 ture. 



The Marsh Fit Section. — On following McLellan's brook up 

 from the East river measures higher in the series are continuously 

 met with as far as the mouth of Marsh brook ; then succeed the 

 strata, proved in detail by a borehole put down from the bottom 

 of the McLeod pit, and which supplied the " wants " in Logan's 

 section. No. II, page 17. Above the beds so proven lie those 

 pierced by the Marsh pit, and they by those that are possibly the 

 highest in the series, intersected by the northwest side line of the 

 Vale area. 



The highest beds may have a thickness of 300 feet, and they 

 include the ten inch seam referred to (page 28) as overlying the 

 Captain seam some 200 feet. 



In abstract they are preceded in descending order as follows : 



Ft. In. 



Coal, Captain seam 3 



Measures, grey shales and sandstones 21 1 



Coal, inferior 1 8 



Measures, grey shale , 10 10 



Coal 3 



Measures, grey shale and strong solid sandstone 64 5 



Coal, Millrace seam 3 1 



Measures, fireclay and hard sandstones 63 6 



3 



Coal, George McKay seam, < '" 



i good 3 6 



fc) 



The Marsh pit has a depth of 248 feet to the bottom of the 

 sump 15 feet below the coal. 



The following succeeding section was obtained in the borehole, 

 put down in 1889 from the bottom of the McLeod pit 34 ft. 



