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On the Bear Creek area the deep seam also has been recognised 

 in its proper place, and has a thickness at right angles to the measures 

 of eleven feet.* Other beds, supposed to be the equivalents of the 

 Purves and M'Gregor Seams, the latter six feet in thickness, have also 

 been found. These discoveries enormously increase the ascertained 

 extent and value of the Pictou Coal-field, as compared with that at 

 the time of the publication of my first edition ; and when taken in con- 

 nexion with the previous observations made by Mr Poole, leave no 

 room whatever for the doubts which I find expressed by some prac- 

 tical men as to the precise equivalency of the beds last mentioned with 

 those so long known at the Albion Mines. 



(4.) Montreal and Pictou Company (Fig. 135 — 6). 



The only colliery as yet opened on the northern side of the Coal 

 trough, on this side of the East River, is that of the Montreal and 

 Pictou Company, immediately opposite to New Glasgow. Here the 

 Coal measures dip, according to Dr Honeyman,-]- S. 20° E. at an angle 

 of 65°. A shaft has been sunk to a depth of 180 feet ; and, according 

 to a Report by Mr Rutherford, published by the Company, has exposed 

 the following section of Coal measures. The measurements are at 

 right angles to the horizon, so that the thickness given does not 

 represent the actual vertical thickness : — 



