24 CARBONIFEROUS OF CAPE BRETON—GILPIN. 
Art. VI—THE CARBONIFEROUS OF CAPE BRETON—By EDWIN 
GILPIN, Jk:, A: M., F: GUS.) FOR. S.C, Deeume 
COMMISSIONER PuBLIC WorKS AND MINES, AND 
INSPECTOR OF MINES. 
(Read April 12, 1887.) 
PART ARE 
In my last contribution on this subject I sketched briefly 
the outlines of this formation as exposed in the Counties of Cape 
Breton and Richmond. I now purpose following the various sub- 
divisions as they are met in the remaining counties, and to finish 
with analyses of the coal beds, iron ores, limestones, saline 
springs, ete., met in the Carboniferous of the Island. These 
analyses are found scattered in various reports and papers, and 
are not accessible to the general public, and I may therefore be 
pardoned for inflicting on you the dry calculations of the analyst. 
In finishing the first part of this paper I alluded briefly to 
the coal field of the River Inhabitants Basin. This district. was 
first reported on by Sir J. W. Dawson, and the results of his 
survey are to be found in the journals of our Legislative 
Assembly. Owing to the paucity of exposures and the wooded 
character of the country, little could be gathered by him of 
interest to the field geologist. 
Some interest was shown in the district at that time, and 
seams were opened on at Little River, and at Carabacou Cove, 
and some outcrops exposed on the west side of the river Basin. 
The mines, which were imperfectly opened, did not long compete 
with the collieries of the Sydney district and were abandoned. 
Mr. Fletcher, of the Geological Survey, used every exertion to 
map out the district with precision, but it proved a difficult task, 
its complicated structure was rendered less intelligible by the 
presence of several faults of great magnitude, and scarce a record 
could be found of the large sums spent in prospecting. It, how- 
ever, would appear, that, roughly speaking, there is a coal basin 
