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ance with the geological law that regions of the greatest disturbance 

 are generally those of the greatest metamorphism, it is not strange 

 that the rocks of the West Passage are more metamorphic than those 

 of other portions of this section of the basin. On the west shore of 

 the Island of Conanicut the Coal-measures dip E.S.E. true, away 

 from the west side of the basin, the nearest rocks to the west being 

 the Mica-schist (B), which forms there the shore of the maiialand. 

 In examining the outcrops on the west shore of the northern portion 

 of Conanicut, which, with occasional interruptions, extend some 

 three miles or more, I noted the following section, beginning with 

 the more recent strata : 



Mica-schist with Garnets, Staurolite, Ottrelite and Chlorite, 4 

 feet. 



Plumbaginous Argillyte, with minute veins of Mica and coal 

 ferns, 3 feet. 



Mica-schisfc with Garnets, Staurolite, Ottrelite and Chlorite (in- 

 cluding 3 feet of Plumbaginous-schist), 10 feet. 



Several layers covered, but conformable. 



Mica-schist with Garnets and Chlorite (including a few inches of 

 Plumbaginous Argillyte), 3| feet. 



Quartzose Mica-schist (including 2 feet of Quartzyte with radiate 

 Asbestus), 7 feet. 



Plumbaginous Argillyte with Garnets and Chlorite, 2 feet. 



Mica-schist with Garnets, Staurolite, Ottrelite and Chlorite, 8 

 feet. 



The Staurolites occur as single crystals, twins of 60°, and drillings. 

 The Garnets and Staurolites are generally partial pseudomorphs of 

 Chlorite after Garnet or Staurolite. 



If such highly crystalline Paleozoic rocks occur in one region they 

 may elsewhere ; and it would not be surjDrising if some metamorphic 

 rocks, now regarded as of Azoic or Eozoic age, should be ultimately 

 found to belong to the Paleozoic. 



The President, Messrs. Notman, Shaw and Livingston 

 made some observations on the subject of the paper. 



