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unchanged, by students of both classes mutual forbearance is practised 

 and they are content to work side by side, although it is evident both 

 could not agree were they to continue to an issue the deductions to 

 which several of their teachings lead. We as a society cannot well 

 engage in controversies of this character, for it is not to be expected 

 that where individual convictions are involved that members as a 

 body could maintain a judicial position and a tolerant spirit. 



Note also was taken of the interest in scientific research by the 

 Branch of the Institute established in King's County and the addi- 

 tional five papers that were discussed at Wolfville. 



Borings in search of Coal. 



In my address of a year ago I referred to certain theoretical 

 deductions respecting the possible extension of workable coal seams 

 lying concealed under newer measures on the north side -of the 

 Cobequid hills from the Bay of Fundy eastward to Merigomish. 



The interest that had there been aroused took practical shape, 

 and search in three localities was prosecuted. One borehole was put 

 down at Spicers' Cove on the Bay of Fundy to a depth of 944 feet, 

 but as it turned out, it was placed too close to the hill range, for after 

 passing through a thick bed of conglomerate, largely composed of the 

 debris of the old rocks it entered, at 893^^ feet, igneous rocks in place. 

 A site for another hole in this locality has been selected further from 

 the hills, at Apple river. 



The second locality is near Newville at Halfway River lake on 

 the Springhill and Parrsborough railway, and a borehole there also 

 met with conglomerate at the expected depths. Here it is found to 

 be composed chiefly of clastic rocks of Lower Carboniferous age, and 

 it has not yet been passed through by the borehole which has now 

 reached a depth of over 2200 feet.* 



The third persistent efibrt to get at the underlying strata was 

 made at the mouth of Rear brook, below New Glasgow, on the East 

 river. After the loss of the first hole at a depth of some 900 feet 

 a second borehole was made alongside the first, and at 1900 feet 

 it had failed to reach the bottom of the conglomerate bed when 



* Subseqiienrly, at 2350 feet from the .surface coal was struck which is reported 

 to be 9 feet in thickness, and tlie coring wa.s stopped at a depth of 2359 feet.— .Bd. 



