DISTRICT OF CAPE BRETON COUNTY. 



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Shales and arenaceous Bhales 



| Dark shale .... 

 •v«i ™« m n J Coal slate "Cannel" . 



Coal -R rou P 7 j Hard sandy shale . . 



[Coaly matter 



Hard sandy shales and fire-clay 

 (A slight break in the section occurs here in Little 



Glace Hay). 

 Soft measures 



Doal-groupS {$$ slwlc [ | | 



Sandstones and shales . 



f Black bituminous shale 



ru„i ~^„« o J Cannel Coal . 



Coal-group 9 -j Black bituminous s]mlc 



[Undcrclay 



Sandstone and fire-clay . 



Coal, " Harbour Vein." 



Shales foliated 



Iron ore 



Coal .... 



f Shale and sandstone 

 ICoal .... 



Sandstones, shales, and fire-clay 



Coal -group 10. 



Coal-group 11. 



Coal-group 12 {Sk shale 



of 



Coal-group 13. 



Sandstones, shales, and fire 

 Ironstone . 

 ( Coal " Brutether's Vein " * 

 " " \ Underclay 



Shales, sandstones, and fire-clays, the latter with 

 nodules of ironstone 49 



clay 



with nodules 



tn. 

 ■I 

 2 

 7 



In all, 907 feet. 



The above section is thus continued in descending order by the 



following, kindly furnished by II. Poole, Esq., from the Engine Pit at 



the Caledonia Mine : — 



Gray sandstone underlaid by seven inches of gray ft- 

 shale with fossil plants 9 



Coal-group 14 { Sk shale with fJssils .' .' .' .' .' ! 



Gray sandstones with St'ujmaria, underlaid by dark 



gray shale ten inches 19 



( Coal with partings of shale and fire-clay " Back Pit 



Coal-group 15 < ^cam." 4 



( Uard gray sandstone 1 



Gray sandstone with beds of fire-clay — Stiginaria 64 



Coal-frrmm lfi f Coat two to nine inches ..... 



° P \ Dark gray sandstone — Sligmaria ... 1 



Sandstone and shale — Stigmaria, Neuropterie, Cor- 

 daites 27 



9 







7 

 5 

 6 



8 



* According to Mr Poole, the perpendicular distance between Coal-groups 12 and 

 13 is 135 feet, and there arc two coals, each one foot thick, in the interval. 



