TRIASSIC (?) HOCKS OF DIGBY BASIN. BAILEY. 357 



what pebbly. They are nearly horizontal, but with the frequent 

 occurrence of what appears to be false bedding. Still farther 

 north they become, within a few yards, quite coarse, while the 

 colour changes from red to chocolate brown, more or less mottled 

 with light grey. The paste is soft and clayey, but imbedded in 

 the latter, in addition to masses of red sandstone, are numerous 

 columnar blocks of trap. These blocks are markedly prismatic 

 and of considerable size, one of them, as shown in the accompany- 

 ing sketch, projecting from the face of the bluff for over two 

 feet. What is the age of these beds ? 



Evidently they are newer than the trap of which they con- 

 tain imbedded columns. But how much newer ? Possibly 

 Quaternary. Regarded solely by themselves, there would seem 

 to be no great objection to this conclusion, and it is favored by 

 the occurrence in the vicinity of beds filled with trappean blocks 

 which bear every evidence of being of this age, but the latter 

 are of a different colour, and do not show that intimate associa- 

 tion with the Triassic beds which characterizes the former. This 

 association is well exhibited in the accompanying sketch, made 

 upon the ground. (See Plate X, Fig. 2.) 



The lowest beds exposed at this point are brownish red sand- 

 stones, horizontally stratified, and no doubt a continuation of 

 those seen along the Granville shore. Resting upon them, but 

 somewhat irregularly, are beds of purplish red conglomerate, 

 which are also obscurely stratified, but seem to pass upwards 

 into the very coarse conglomerate in which are contained the 

 large blocks of trap. Between the two there is no clear line of 

 separation as regards either colour or texture. The coarse beds 

 are, however, exposed* only for a few yards, while beyond them 

 the finer beds, somewhat mottled, show at intervals for nearly a 

 furlong. In this latter direction they form the shore beneath 

 the high hill of columnar trap to which reference has been made* 

 but owing to the land-slide which has affected the face of the 

 latter, the relations of the one to the other are not easily to be 

 made out. The purplish grey beds along the shore would seem, 

 from their position, to extend beneath the trappean hill, but in 



