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tained by eminent authority, and that the priority of the auriferous 

 formation to the Middle and Upper Silurian has not been univer- 

 sally conceded, or is altogether so evident as most people appear to 

 imagine. There appears to be some reason for supposing that 

 the rocks in question may be Devonian, as the only rocks found 

 directly superimposed upon these are the unquestionable lower 

 carboniferous. If this were taken as indubitable or even pre- 

 sumptive evidence of the position, it would carry too far and 

 lead to the conclusion that every argillite immediately overlaid by 

 lower carboniferous was Devonian, and we would thus be carried 

 back to a very remote period in the History of Nova Scotian 

 Geology, if any such period ever existed. It will be observed that 

 all that I attempt to prove is that the auriferous slates and grits of 

 Nova Scotia are older than the Middle and Upper Silurian, and 

 newer than the Laurentian, and may be Cambrian or Huronian, or 

 Lower Silurian or both. If they are Huronian and Lower Silurian, 

 as Prof. Hind seems to have established, then Nova Scotia has a 

 complete series of formations from the Azoic or Eozooic to the last 

 of the Paleozoic series, viz : Laurentian, Huronian, Lower Silurian, 

 Middle Silurian, Upper Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, New 

 Eed Sandstone. 



Art. V. Remarks on the Geology and Physical Geo- 

 graphy OF THE North-east Coast of Kent (England.) 

 August, 1870. By Alfred S. Foord, Esq., London. 



(Read January 9, 1871.) 



My attention was first directed to that part of the coast of 

 Kent between Ramsgate and *Broadstairs, covering a distance of 

 about five miles, and consisting of the Upper Chalk Formation, 

 the cliffs being well exposed along the whole distance in a bold 

 escarpment, attaining an altitude in some places of from sixty to 

 eighty feet. 



The most striking point observable in viewing these rocks from 



•rormerly Bradstowe. 



