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few miles, these old rocks again emerofe from their cloak of 

 of black slates, but we look in vain for any evidence of the 

 bedded leads. 



Perhaps an even more instructive case is presented by the 

 interval between the settlement of Moose River on the south, 

 and the contact of the quartzite or Goldenville formation with 

 the black slates to the north, southwest of Caribou. At about 

 t'le longitude of Moose River there are live anticlines, from the 

 Carboniferous rocks of the Musquodoboit valley on the north 

 to the ocean on the south, and excepting the Moose River arid 

 Caribou folds. These are the Gold Lake-Golden ville, Moose- 

 land-Gegogan, Lake Catcha-Salmon River, Tangier- Harrigan 

 Cove, and Southern anticlines. They are all south of Moose 

 River. Every fold except the Southern bears two or more 

 domes ; and three of the anticlines have Gold Lake, Mooseland 

 and Tangier within a few miles east or west of the longitude 

 of Moose River. Going from that district north to the contact, 

 one traverses an open barren for the most part, on which out- 

 crops are numerous. It is not likely that all the observers who 

 have made the traverse have been deceived as to the structure, 

 which appears to them to be that of a simple high north dip, 

 with no folds. Nor are they likely to have overlooked entirely 

 the large number of leads which should be there, if those of the 

 three districts named are continuous for any distance. For a 

 structural cross-section of the countiy shows that Moose River 

 lies at nearly the lowest spot within the gold-bearing rocks laid 

 open to observation by erosion ; while Caribou lies at the sum- 

 mit of the quartzites, and the three other districts are situated 

 at structural horizons intermediate between these two. It is 

 easy enough to compute the horizons — that is, where the leads 

 should come — but they are not there. Instances might be 

 multiplied, if necessary, all giving testimony to the same end. 

 But it is enough to state that there appears to be conclusive 

 evidence of a universal discontinuity of bedded leads, in all 

 directions. Single veins have been followed for a few thousand 



