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and gray sandstone, the latter containing Catamites, Sternbergia, ami 

 other Coal formation fossils, and no doubt higher in the series than 

 the beds last mentioned. Near Morristown these beds dip to the 

 N.E., and have been disturbed by a spur of trappean or altered rock, 

 containing kernels of epidote, and associated with contorted dark 

 shales, probably Lower Carboniferous. Beyond this interruption, the 

 coast shows soft reddish sandstones and shales, with some beds of gray 

 sandstone and conglomerate, dipping to the S.S.E. at an angle of 50°, 

 and on these rests a bed of limestone nearly 100 feet thick ; in its 

 lower portion laminated, the laminaj being occasionally broken up so 

 as to give it a fragmentary or brecciatcd appearance ; in its upper 

 part compact, and penetrated by small gypsum veins. On this lime- 

 stone rests a rock consisting of alternate layers of limestone and 

 gypsum, above which is a great thickness of pure flesh-coloured 

 crystalline gypsum, and on this again, white laminated fine-grained 

 gypsum, with minute grains of carbonate of lime. The whole thick- 

 ness of the gypsum is about 200 feet, and it forms a beautiful cliff 

 fronting the sea (Fig. 138). 



Fig. 138.— Cliff of Crystalline Gypsum near OgdeiCs Lake, Sydney County. 



This gypsum and limestone can be traced with scarcely any inter- 

 ruption to the village of Antigonish, about five miles distant, where 

 tlie same beds are seen in the banks of Right's River. Near the 

 mouth of this river, at the head of Antigonish Harbour, is a thick bed 

 of white gypsum, dipping to the south-west. Succeeding this, in 

 descending order, after a small interval (which appears to have been 

 occupied by sandstones, now nearly removed by denudation), is a bed 

 "f dark-coloured limestone, in which, at different points where it 



