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cline seen on the other side of the bay. It is noteworthy that 

 this outcrop is within two miles of the granite, but shows no 

 development of contact metamorphic minerals, owing prob- 

 ably to the dense texture and low alumina content of the rock. 

 From .Gunning Cove to Red Head (south of Round Bay), 

 staurolite schist occurs in which the staurolites are of large 

 size (one inch long), but not very abundant. The strike re- 

 mains about the same, the dip being at a high angle toward 

 the south until it changes to 75° N, east of Round Bay, on 

 the southern limb of the syncline. 



At Red Head staurolite schist outcrops, the staurolites 

 being more abundant and of larger size than anywhere else 

 in the region. Abundant biotites and small garnets are as- 

 sociated with the staurolites, and bands of the rock contain 

 only biotite metacrysts. The strike is due E-W, and the dip 

 at 3° N. indicating an east-west fault north of here. The 

 same strike and a 10° N dip of the bedding is found at Black 

 Point, three miles to the south. Here, also, the staurolites 

 are abundant. 



Negro Island consists of two islands joined by a sand bar. 

 On the north shore of the eastern island staurolite schist ap- 

 pears on the west, near the lighthouse, and quartzite free 

 from metacrysts on the east. The strike is about N 30° E 

 with a variable dip of 15°-40° N. On the western island 

 quartzites, locally containing a few staurolites. outcrop with 

 a strike N 15° E, dip 70°-85° N. There is evidently a fault 

 between the islands with a downthrow on the east, and also 

 an east-west fault between the islands and the mainland. 



On the mainland near Betsy Ann Point (separating North- 

 east and Northwest Harbors), a spotted grey ottrelite schist 

 appears, with a strike of N 25° E, dip 30° N. It is a continua- 

 tion of the southern flank of the syncline which has been 

 traced from Sand Point. A fine-grained garnetiferous schist 

 occurs a mile to the northeast and micaceous quartzite a mile 

 and a half to the northwest. The same structure probably 



