A Section of Carboniferous Rocks in Cumberland County. 

 Nova Scotia : (1) Detailed Section of Rocks from 

 West Ragged Reef to the Joggins Mines and Minu- 

 DiE, BY Sir William E. Logan, (republished) ; and (2) 

 FROM Shulie to Spicer Cove, by Hugh Fletcher, b. a., 

 of the Geological Survey of Canada. 



Introduction. 

 Bv Henry S. Poolf. d. sc, f. g. s., 



President of tfie A'. S. Institute of Science. 



The coatinuous exposure of Carboniferous rocks along the 

 Cumberland County shore of the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, 

 early attracted the notice of observers, and in 1848 it was 

 measured in detail by the late Sir William Logan. His section 

 of 14,570 feet of strata was published in 1845 as an appendix 

 to the Reports on a Geological Survey of the Province of 

 Canada.* Copies of this section, however, cannot now be 

 obtained. Students ask for them and so do others who are 

 attracted to the locali y by the present boom in the coal trade 

 and the possibilities of the field whose rocks are so well exposed 

 in the so-called Joggins section. 



To meet this demand, the council of the Nova Scotian 

 Institute of Science has decided to republish Logan's section 

 verbatim et literatiin. Follownig the reprint of this section 

 is given, with the sanction of Dr. R. Bell, the Acting Directo.i 

 of the Geological Survey of Canada, a hitherto unpublished 

 detailed section of the rocks from Shulie to Spicer Cove, by Mr- 

 Hugh Fletcher, who has made a life's study of the geology of 



* Message from HLs Excellency the Governor General, with Reports on a Geolo- 

 gical Siirve> of the Province of Canada, presented to the House on 27th January, 

 1845. Montreal, 1S45. 



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