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pier from near the granitic point which covers to the 

 southward the mouth of Henderson's Lagoons, near 

 Falmouth, and at same time to divert the waters of the 

 Seamander River through these lagoons into the harbour 

 thus formed, so as to keep the entrance clear. 



This scheme is, upon the whole, the more feasible of 

 the two ; and, if carried out, would be more likely to 

 endure, and answer to some extent the end in view. 

 Besides, it would possess this great advantage over 

 George's River and Long Point — that it would aiSbrd a 

 secure place of shipment for coal and other produce of 

 the district along a road already formed, and only about 

 half the distance which must be traversed to reach either 

 of those places. 



The work, nevertheless, from the numerous subordi- 

 nate undertakings involved with and essential to it, 

 would entail in the execution a very serious expenditure 

 of labour, time, and capital. 



I have stated that the rock formation extending from 

 the coast at Falmouth to St. Mary's Pass, at the 

 eastern boundary of the Break-o'-day Plains, is of 

 granite and syenitic granite. At St. Mary's Pass, an 

 elevation of upwards of 1000 feet, granite is replaced 

 with transition clay-slate standing on edge, — which then 

 stretches to the northward in long winding ridges of a 

 still higher elevation, hemming in the greenstone range 

 of Mount Nicholas, with its basement of carboniferous 

 and fossiliferous strata. 



The transition rocks show themselves again upon the 

 coast, at the mouth of the Scamander River, in imme- 

 diate apposition with massive granite, and alternating in 

 the shape of regular compact seams of a hard sandstone- 

 like greywacke, and of much contorted beds of a dark 

 carbonaceous clay-slate, varying to whet-slate and alum 

 shale. 



