15$ Geology and Fossil Flora of P. E. I. 



The rocks at Cape Turner belong to a horizontal series of strata 

 %vhich stretches along the north shore from N"ew London to Tra- 

 "Cudie Harbor, lying unconforinably on a denuded anticlinal of the 

 Permian, at least they occupy the place where we ought to find 

 "indications of the eastward extension of the Tryon anticlinal. 

 The Report of Drs. Dawson and Harrington, 1871, states that at 

 Tryon appears to be " the beginning of a synclinal." At Campbell's 

 'Cove I found the centre of the anticlinal, the beds dipping both 

 ways frcm it. To tie west its influence can be traced for 

 a considerable distance on the Irish Town Road, though not 

 *een at Darnley and its vicinity ; but eastward it is lost under 

 "the horizontal series mentioned. 



This Cape Tryon anticlinal is the third of a series parallel to 

 the Cobequids, which disturbs cur Island beds. Two have been 

 mapped out in the Beport above referred to, and this third and 

 most distant one, though irregular and broken, is of great inter- 

 «st.* 



The horizontal beds of Cape Turner, I think, must be called 

 truly Triassic. Their westward extension into New London 

 contained the Bathygnathus, and all the remains that I have found 

 in them are dissimilar from those of the south side of the Island, 

 except, perhaps, one doubtful fucus. 



In looking at the little group of plants from Cape Turner 

 it is to be observed, that while the groups from Gallas Point, 

 St. Peter's Island, Miminigash, and localities on the south side 

 •of the Island all have a decided relationship among themselves, 

 this Cape Turner group has no relationship to any of them. Even 

 the fucoids of the Cape Turner beds are distinct, with, perhaps, one 

 exception. 



Remarks on the above by Sir William Dawson : — 



The geology of Prince Edward Island, though seme what simple, 

 lias been the subject from time to time of diverse opinions. 

 It was natural that the earlier observers, influenced merely by 

 mineral character and superposition, should relegate all the 

 sandstone deposits, mostly of red colors, overlying the coal- 

 measures of eastern Nova Scotia and extending across the 



*See also Mr. Ells' Report, Geol. Survey of Canada, 1883-4. 



