SECOND ORDINARY MEETING. 2 
ance with the geological law that regions of the greatest disturbance 
are generally those of the greatest metamorphism, it is not strange 
that the rocks of the West Passage are more metamorphic than those 
of other portions of this section of the basin. On the west shore of 
the Island of Conanicut the Coal-measures dip E.S.E. true, away 
from the west side of the basin, the nearest rocks to the west being 
the Mica-schist (B), which forms there the shore of the mainland. 
In examining the outcrops on the west shore of the northern portion 
of Conanicut, which, with occasional interruptions, extend some 
three miles or more, I noted the following section, beginning with 
the more recent strata : 
Mica-schist with Garnets, Staurolite, Ottrelite and Chlorite, 4 
feet. 
Plumbaginous Argillyte, with minute veins of Mica and coal 
ferns, 3 feet. 
Mica-schist with Garnets, Staurolite, Ottrelite and Chlorite (in- 
cluding 2 feet of Plumbaginous-schist), 10 feet. 
Several layers covered, but conformable. 
Mica-schist with Garnets and Chiorite (including a few inches of 
Plumbaginous Argillyte), 33 feet. 
Quartzose Mica-schist (including 2 feet of Quartzyte with radiate 
Asbestus), 7 feet. 
Plumbaginous Argillyte with Garnets and Chlorite, 2 feet. 
Mica-schist with Garnets, Staurolite, Ottrelite and Chlorite, 8 
feet. 
The Staurolites occur as single crystals, twins of 60°, and drillings. 
The Garnets and Staurolites are generally partial pseudomorphs of 
Chlorite after Garnet or Staurolite. 
If such highly crystalline Paleozoic rocks occur in one region they 
may elsewhere ; and it would not be surprising if some metamorph*c 
rocks, now regarded as of Azoic or Kozoic age, should be ultimately 
found to belong to the Paleozoic. 
The President, Messrs. Notman, Shaw and Livingston 
made some observations on the subject of the paper. 
