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CHAPTER XVII. 

 The Cakdoxifkrous I'kiuod — Continued. 



Districts of I'ictou, Antigonish, and Gnysboroagh — Isolated Patches at 



Margaret's Bay, etc., 315 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



The Carboniferous Period — Continued. 



Land Animals of the Coal Period — Reptiles — Pulmonates— 1 . 353 



CHAPTER XIX. 



The Carboniferous Period — Continual. 



District of Richmond and Southern Inverness — Useful Minerals — District 

 of Northern Inverness and Victoria— Useful Minerals — District of Cape 

 Breton County — Useful Minerals, 390 



CHAPTER XX. 



The Carboniferous Period — Continm d. 



The Flora of the Coal Formation — Tissues in Coal — Descriptive List of 

 Plants — Note on Xylobius, 421 



CHAPTER XXI. 



The Devonian Period. 



Lower Devonian of Nova Scotia — Devonian of Southern New Brunswick 



— Section of " Fern Ledges" — Useful Minerals — Crustaceans and In- cts, 407 



CHAPTER XXII. 



The Devonian Period — Continued. 

 The Flora of the Devonian in New Brunswick — List of Plants. . . 531 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



The Upfeb Silurian Period. 



Upper Silurian of Nova Scotia — Of New Brunswick — Useful Minerals — 



Fossil Remains — Metamorphism of Sediments — Igneous Rocks, . . 557 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



The Lowkb Su.ii.iAN Psaioo, 



Lower Silurian of Nova Scotia — Gold — Lower Silurian of New Brunswick 



— "Acadian Group" — Useful Minerals — Primordial Fossils, . . . 613 



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