SHULIE TO SPICER COVE. FLETCHER. 547 



A correlation of these sections seems to show that only about 

 498 feet of the base of Section IX at Hetty Point extend beyond 

 the base of Section I (and II) ; that Sections IV, V and VI are 

 wholly re]>eated in Section I, the general similarity of the strata 

 of these four sections being evident. 



A provisonal sunmiary of the total thickness of strata from 

 the uppermost Permian beds at Shulie River — the top of 

 Loe-an's section — to the base at the Devonian svenite, south 

 of Spicer Cove;, may be given as follows : 



Feet. 



Strata of Section I (Shulie to Sand Cove) 1769 



Section IX (Birch Cove to Hetty Point) .... 498 

 " Section X (Apple River to Spicer Cove) .... 793 

 " Section XI (Spicer Cove) 811 



Total thickness exposed in coast section. . . 3871 

 This conclusion, arrived at from comparison of the columnar 

 sections, does not contradict the evidence obtained from a study 

 of the dips, faults, etc., as may be seen on the accompanying 

 maps, on which the position of the various sections has been laid 

 doA\Ti ; but before accepting it, further comparison of the beds 

 suppoised to be equivalent might be made. 



Of the rocks of the Upper Coal Formation on the opposite 

 side of the basin, from Shulie toward Ragged Reef, Sir J. Wm. 

 Dawson says :* "Fossils are not abundant ; but Calanvites, Stig- 

 maria, Lepidodendra and large petrified trunks of the pine trees 

 of the Coal Fonnation still appear. The general aspect of these 

 beds is, to a great extent, similar to that of the Millstone Grit 

 series." 



And in regard to the strata of the base of the section the 

 same -uTiter observes: ''At Mill Brook, southeast of Apple 

 River, there is a bed of coal one inch in thickness, and dipping 

 to the north at a small angle. It is associated with coarse sand- 



*Acadian Geology, p. 155. 



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