134 GENERAL GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE 



The following section illustrates this view of the 

 general structure of the province, in so far as the coal- 

 measures, the red sandstones, the limestones, and the 

 red conglomerate, are concerned. The section repre 

 sents the different series of beds as lying conformably to 

 each other. This may not, however, be the case, espe 

 cially as regards the connection of the grey coal-bearing 

 measures with the gypsiferous marls beneath them, and 

 the whole of these beds rest unconformably, I sup 

 pose, upon the upper Silurian slates. Whether there be 

 below the red conglomerate a series of grey sandstones, 

 separating it from the Silurian rocks, I cannot venture 

 to say, as I had nowhere the opportunity of seeing a 

 junction between the conglomerate and any subjacent 

 rock. 



Indeed, I may say, that having commenced this tour 

 without any precise ideas of its general structure for 

 none had yet been published and with another leading 

 object in view, I lost valuable opportunities I should 

 otherwise have availed myself of passed by spots the 

 inspection of which would have cleared up many diffi 

 culties, and misinterpreted, by the way, appearances I 

 should have clearly understood, had I started on my 

 journey with the above section in my hand, instead of 

 being able only to put it together after I had travelled 

 along the whole wide and frequently disjointed region, 

 from the red sandstones of the Canadian side of the Bay 

 de Chaleur, to those of Nova Scotia, at Amherst and 

 Minudie, and of Sussex Vale, and the Hammond [River. 



Now, the agricultural lesson which this section teaches 

 is most striking, and shows as close and satisfactory a 

 connection between geological structure and agricultural 

 capability as is seen in the very interesting region of 

 western New York, on which I dwelt so long in a pre 

 vious chapter. Among the more striking points I may 

 notice referring to the numbers in the section 



