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It would appear that immediately to the east of the East River, a 

 synclinal fold, appai'ently with some disturbance in its axis, occurs. 

 This throws the beds round into the north-westerly dips seen in 

 M'Lellan's Brook. Beyond this there is an anticlinal, succeeded by a 

 second synclinal, on the east side of which, in the vicinity of Suther- 

 land's River, the coal beds reappear with north-westerly and northerly 

 dips. The most eastern exposure on this tortuous line of outcrop is 

 a bed stated to be ten feet in thickness, seen near Sutherland's River, 

 about two miles from its mouth. 



No doubt the coal beds extend still farther to the eastward, along 

 or under Merigomish Harbour, and they will also be found in all the 

 belt of country between Sutherland's River and the East River. 



The line above indicated refers to the northerly dipping outcrop 

 continuous with that of the Albion Mines ; but fronting this there is, on 

 the east side of the East River, as indicated in the general section in 

 the first edition of this work, and reproduced without alteration in Fig. 

 134, a narrow line of outcrop, in which some at least of the beds re- 

 appear with southerly dips along the line of the fracture which skirts 

 the outcrop of the great New Glasgow conglomerate. This exposure 

 is continuous with that already noticed immediately opposite New 

 Glasgow, and includes the beds long known in the vicinity of that 

 place on the east side of the river, Avith others recently traced farther 

 to the south and east. 



Eastward of New Glasgow, according to observations made by Mr 

 Kirby on his coal areas, the line of strike curves somewhat to the 

 northward, forming a broad indentation parallel to the projection on the 

 opposite side of the trough, and then, retui'ning toward the south, passes 

 toward the shores of Merigomish Harbour, where its extension has not 

 yet been observed. The beds of the Upper Coal formation which 

 are seen at Little Harbour, appear in Merigomish Island apparently 

 without any synclinal arrangement between them and the Lower Car- 

 boniferous rocks of the adjacent mainland. There is, however, a con- 

 siderable space concealed by Merigomish Harbour, and by the beach 

 between Merigomish Island and the mainland, and it is to be observed 

 that the Upper Coal formation beds on the island dip to the north, 

 while those on the nearest part of the mainland dip to the N. W., and 

 seem to belong to the lower part of the Coal formation. This indicates 

 either intervening curves or dislocations, or that the upper series is 

 unconformable to the lower. 



In the above general notice mention has been made of a great bed 

 of conglomerate occurring immediately to the northward of the East 

 River Coal trough, and which, as it appears very conspicuously at 



