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approximate to the original margin of the thick beds in this direction. 

 Such a place I should expect to find in the bend of the outcrop to 

 the westward of Mr Haliburton's mine opposite New Glasgow. 



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If these views are correct, we have a right to expect that the tract 

 of Coal fomiation country to tlie northward of the great conglomerate, 

 and extending from it to the eastern extremity of the Cumberland 

 district, should present characters similar to those of that district. 

 Accordingly the section on the tideway of the East River, and the 

 corresponding sections on the Middle River, and on the coast toward 



