THE PICTOU COAL FIELD — POOLE. 



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This section, reduced to right angles to the dip of 14'', is equal 

 to 981 feet. 



In part the above section is used in the following comparative 

 abstracts of strata proved by the Acadia Company's boreholes 

 Nos. 2 and 3 in 1878, the borehole of the New Glasgow Iron Co. 

 in 1889, and the Survey record 1869 : 



Other than this borehole the only work done in this section 

 has been on the George McKay seam along the crop west of 

 Marsh brook, and towards the McLeod pit. The coal there mined 

 is a free burning coal that will not coke. It contains a lower 

 percentage of ash than is usual in the. Pictou field. At the brook 

 the dip of the seam is N. 50 E. 14°, but followed eastward the 

 crop flattens to 5" on entering the Vale area, and is carried by 

 ascending ground round to the south into the neighbourhood 

 where Logan gave on pages 15 and 16 the probable highest coal 

 seam of the measures. That the Six Feet seam so given near A. 

 McLean's, Jr., and the George McKay are one and the same is 

 now concluded from finding midway in a trial pit south of St. 

 Mary's Road at J. McDonald's, turner, the coal to be dipping 

 northward at less than 2''. Southward of the Vale lease these 



