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feet. Numerous faults occur at the locality, the principal of which, 

 on the easternmost side of the most prominent projecting leclge, and 

 whose direction is S. 30° W., is a downthrow of about 50 feet. 



" Directly in front of the ledges, and about half a mile from the 

 shore, is a series of skerries laid bare at low water, called the ' Shag 

 Rocks.' I have not visited them, but the beds of which they are 

 composed have an apparent east-and-west strike, and a high dip to 

 the southward. They are probably the upper members of the Cordaite 

 Shales. 



" Beds of sandstone and shale, similar to those at the Fern Ledges, 

 show themselves on the shore about three-quarters of a mile to the 

 westward. They contain the remains of a few species of plants 

 identical with those occurring at the ' Ledges,' but the beds are 

 higher up in the series. This locality, called the ' Calamite Ledges,' 

 has not been so carefully examined as that to the eastward. I have 

 collected there the following species, nearly all of which are common 

 to the two localities : — 



" Cordaites Robbi/\ Daws. Extremely abundant in certain layers 

 of black shale, and very finely preserved. — Sphenopteris Hitch- 

 cocbiana, Daws. Abundant in detached pinnules. — Pecopteris 

 discrepans. Daws. Apparently rare : have found but a single pinnule. 

 — Cardiocarpum cornutum, Daws. Not infrequent, associated with 

 cordaites, calamites, etc. — Calamites transitionis, Goeppert. Abun- 

 dant. — C. cannceformis, Brongn. — Annidaria acuminata. Daws. 

 Pinnularia dispalans, Daws. Common. — Psilophy'on? glabrum, 

 Daws. — Stigmaria Jicoides (r«r.), Brongn. — A single specimen 

 with rootlets attached was found by my father, J. W. Hartt, in 

 a bed of sandstone, about half-way up in the section here exposed. 

 — Lepidodendron Gaspianam f Daws. Two or three ill-preserved 

 specimens of a Lepidodendron, which Dawson has referred with 

 doubt to this species, were collected at this locality by Mr Matthew 

 and myself. 



" The sandstone at the Fern Ledges is very compact and hard, and 

 of a gray colour. It contains many plant remains, but usually in a 

 badly preserved state. Thin beds of arenaceous shale, of a fine 

 texture and dark-gray colour, becoming black sometimes, or passing 

 into light greenish- gray, are interstratified with the sandstones, and 

 these beds are highly charged with plants, which occur preserved as 

 graphite, every nerve and nervule of a fern leaf being as distinct as 

 in a pencil drawing. 



" It had been ascertained several years ago by Gesner, Robb, 

 Dawson, and others, that the beds of the Little River group were 



