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But the numerous dislocations tossifications, as the 

 miners in Teasdale expressively call such as 1 now speak 

 of which traverse the country, and the conformable 

 strike and dip of the beds on either side of these disloca 

 tions, have hitherto perplexed the geological explorers 

 of the province to determine the true relative positions of 

 the red and grey beds. A succession of ridges occurs, 

 in one of which the grey beds may appear to dip under 

 neath the red conglomerate ; in another, under the lime 

 stone or red marls ; while in a third the grey beds seem 

 to overlie all these rocks, and the red marls and gypsi- 

 ferous beds to dip underneath them. 



But the whole of these perplexing appearances are 

 explained, if we take the section already given of the 

 Sackville marshes as a representation of the general suc 

 cession of the rocks of this part of North America. Imme 

 diately upon the red conglomerate rests the limestone, 

 over this the red marls and gypsum, upon this the coal- 

 bearing grey and greenish-grey (grindstone) sandstones, 

 with an uncertain conglomerate at their base ; upon these 

 the grey conglomerate ; and over this the thin slaty soft 

 non-coal-bearing, or unproductive yellowish-grey sand 

 stones, which cover so large an area in central New 

 Brunswick. 



And if, proceeding from the centre of disturbance, 

 where the igneous rocks occur, as on the Hammond 

 River, we admit the existence of a succession of disloca 

 tions and upheavals of the red conglomerate, and the 

 rocks which lie over it, so that a succession of ridges is 

 formed, on which sometimes the red conglomerate, and 

 sometimes the limestone, forms the summits beyond 

 which ridges, as the country slopes away, the other 

 upper beds come on, till it flattens into the stony barrens 

 of the upper grey sandstones all the geological and 

 physical appearances are explained, and all the changes 

 in agricultural capability accounted for. 



