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rise into bold ridges. This is especially the case near the middle of 

 the Reach, where they produce some interesting scenery. 



"The rocks of the Kingston group, besides occupying the peninsula 

 ■which properly bears that name, extend to the eastward within the 

 limits represented on the map. Like most of the older formations 

 in this part of the province, they are progressively covered to the 

 eastward by Carboniferous rocks. They extend, however, on the 

 south as far as Dickie Mountain, near Norton Station, and upon the 

 north within a few miles of Belleisle Point, forming two bands, 

 separated by a valley now occupied by Carboniferous sandstones 

 and limestones. 



" On the northern shore of the Long Reach, lying between the main 

 river and the granites of the Nerepis, is a band of rocks which I have, 

 with some doubt, referred to the group now under consideration. I 

 have not been able to examine this district in sufficient detail to fully 

 establish its relative age, but have connected it with the Kingston 

 rocks, for the following reasons : — 



u 1st. At the extremity of Oak Point, towards the head of the 

 Reach, and in the rocky islands occurring in this neighbourhood, the 

 beds are undoubtedly connected with those of Kingston. At Oak 

 Point two varieties occur, interstratified with each other. 



" (a.) Very hard, black and green bedded diorite, with calc spar, 

 chlorite, and epidote. 



u (b.) Light-coloured fine-grained felspathic rocks, graduating into 

 coarser beds of syenite and syenitic gneiss. (General strike, N. 50° E, 

 Dip N ?). These latter are undoubtedly altered sandstones and con- 

 glomerates. 



" 2d. Rocks similar to the above seem to form a well defined band 

 extending westward as far as the Nerepis. At Jones' Creek they 

 are well exposed in thick beds, and apparently rest on a still thicker 

 series of blue and gray altered slates. These latter are little dis- 

 turbed, having a strike about east and west, and a southerly dip 

 of 62°. 



" Along the line of the Nerepis, and in the neighbourhood of the 

 Douglas Arms, altered rocks similar to the above in their granitoid 

 aspect occur, and are probably a continuation of the same series. 



" Between these and the great granite range of the Nerepis valley, 

 altered sandstones and slates, diorite, felsite, and cherty quartzite, 

 occur. 



" It will thus be seen that the band of rocks now under consideration 

 resembles those of Kingston, in the presence of felspathic and green- 

 stone beds, while it differs principally in the abundance of coarse 



