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FIIOM rilK COAI.-KOUMATIO.V OK NoVA SCOTIA. SH'i 



Fjn;. 1. — Sin-fiive of (If CVi(f, nhnvlnif the fvuflfloii of the Tttt, 

 (From 11 sketch by Mr. A11)itL J. Hill.) " 



(7, rt. Coiil-soains. h. Siii>crfici;il Drift. 



" Tlu^ slum]) WMs found to ori^'iiiMtc in a six-inch conly seam, thirty- 

 five feet five inches below that worked in the ('um])erland Mine in coal- 

 ^roup 'l\)ii of Dr. Dawson's section, or division 4, section xi. f>f Sir 

 \V. K. liOiran's seitioM*, and se[tara1ed hy an nndcrclay of \\ feet 

 4 inches from tlio uiKkrlyinj; seam of coarse coal in group IJO. The 

 downward termination of" the tree exhihited s|)r(iidin}i; roots, which 

 were, liowever, in a fiialde condition and not wtdl preserved, hut 

 exhihited on the surface, insido tlu; coaly hark, a tine transverse 

 striation, scarcely visilde t » tli(> naked eye. The surface-markings 

 of the trunk are also indistinct ; hut it shows a coarse longitudinal 

 striation and indications of hroad tlat ril)a. The accompanying 

 drawings (tigs. I and '1) will illustrate the mode of occurrence of the 

 tree in the clitf, and also the principal dimensions of the trunk and 

 axis, with the position of tlie latter in the cast." 



The axis of this remarkable stem is ab'ut six centimetres in ita 



* Auadiiiu (ioolotjy, 2ii(l edi .in, p. 171. 



