CARBONIFEROUS OF CAPE BRETON—GILPIN. PAS, 
extending from Carabacou Cove to Little River, then running in 
an easterly direction across the River Inhabitants, and sweeping 
south to the shore of Lennox Passage. Outside this basin are 
thick beds of millstone grit, but the whole series is interrupted 
by masses of the Marine Limestone Series, brought, possibly by 
faults, into curious relations to the coal beds. In fact at Little 
River it has been suggested by several geologists that the coal is 
associated with the limestones, and gypsums, a mode of occurrence 
paralleled I believe in the North of England. 
At Coal Brook a seam four feet thick is said to have been 
found, with several smaller ones in the vicinity. At the Little 
River Mine the measures are steeply inclined, and apparently 
form the axis of a narrow basin. They dip at a nearly vertical 
angle, and present the following section : 
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The upper beds were opened some years ago by the Hastern 
Development Company, and a few tons extracted. The coal is 
compact and apparently of good quality, but 1 have seen no 
recent analysis of it. 
These outcrops have been traced but a short distance as the 
surface earth is very deep. Their exact relation to the Seacoal 
Cove seams is obscure, but they may possibly be repetitions on 
the northern side of an anticlinal. At the latter place quite 
extensive operations were carried on between 1863 and 1865, 
but only a few hundred tons of coal were shipped. Mr. Camp- 
bell reported that there were several workable seams from three 
to eleven feet in thickness, all standing nearly vertical. The 
coal is said to be similar in quality to that of Little River, and to 
resemble the Pictou coal rather than the more bituminous variety 
mined in the Sydney district. 
