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" In general, it may be stated that the upper limit of the series 

 is a line extending nearly northerly from the vicinity of Quaco, 

 crossing the Shcpody Road near the sources of the Salmon River, 

 thence extending in the same line so as to include a large area 

 in the parish of Hammond, to near the sources of the PoUet River, 

 It follov/s the line of the Shepody Road eastward into Albert, 

 and certainly includes all that portion of the latter county which 

 lies southward of that road, between it and the sea ; while the 

 character of the metamorphic series which appear to the northward 

 would seem to indicate even a wider distribution. Like all the older 

 formations in this portion of the province, the Little River group 

 is progressively covered to the eastward with Carboniferous deposits, 

 which at Shepody Mountain finally cap the subjacent metamorphic 

 beds, and form their well-marked eastern termination. 



" Before the commencement of the present season's work, our 

 knowledge of the extent of this most important group was limited 

 to the area immediately about St John, and eastward to Black 

 River and Gardner's Creek. We have now succeeded in fixing 

 its true limits in this direction, and in giving to it a distribution 

 which, to say the least, is as gratifying as it was unexpected. 



" But not only have these metalliferous rocks been thus found 

 to occupy such an extensive area to the east ; they have also been 

 found to spread widely to the west, and to give promise of valuable 

 discoveries in a region to which, as yet, but little attention has 

 been paid. I refer to portions of the peninsula of Pisarinco, west 

 of St John, and to a large district south of the Musquash River, 

 between the Lancaster Mills and Chance Harbour." Their distri- 

 bution in this direction is discussed at length in the Report above 

 referred to. 



" (B.) Dadoxylon Sandstone. — The lower member of the Little 

 River group, to which the preceding name has been applied, imme- 

 diately succeeds and rests upon the upper member of the Blooms- 

 bury. Folded with the latter into a depression or trough, it has been 

 traced by Mr Matthew in a double curve extending from Mana- 

 wagonish, west of the Harbour of St John, around, and along the 

 southern flank of the Bloomsbury axis, maintaining throughout this 

 district a nearly uniform width. 



" On the eastern side of Courtnay I'ay, it first appears near the 

 mouth of Little River, and thence following the line of the Blooms- 

 bury beds below it, extends northerly and easterly towards the head 

 of the Mispeck, being very well exposed at Mount Prospect, about 

 four miles east of the city. Near the sources of the Mispeck the band 



