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right and left of the road to the Strait of Canso, about three and a 

 half miles from the town. Again, beginning with the outcrop at 

 night's river, the pits in Trotter's pasture, and the great conical 

 outcrop on the road to Braley brook settlement in front of the 

 mountain break, the gypsum beyond a doubt passes under the to^ra 

 and to the south of it, until it outcrops on the banks of West 

 river. Some years ago an attempt at sinking a well in the immedi- 

 ate vicinity in the west of the town disclosed the gypsum bed, and 

 I there obtained specimens of fibrous gypsum of surpassing beauty. 

 Associated with this bed of gypsum and apparently above it, we find 

 limestones with lower carboniferous limestone, brachiopoda. lu 

 addition to this there are also nU(jjyi^-#us saltgprijig^ -rising from this 

 deposit ; it therefoi^ ^^ears to be'^somewhat analogous to the siib-, 

 carboniferous of Michigan ; and the Nova Scotia Salt Company, 

 have thereby been induced to engage in boring operations, ■vs'ith 

 the hope of discovering brine. Besides these beds of limestones 

 there are also limestones of the same age at Doctor's brook in 

 the Arisaig district, and in the trough between the Sugar 

 Loaf range of mountains and the range between Malignant cove 

 and Cape St. George. I have not yet been able to determine 

 whether the latter belong to the north side of this trough or the 

 south side. They appear to me to belong to the north side, like 

 the gypsum which occurs at Ballantine's cove on the S. E. side of 

 Cape St. George. At the side of the cape Ave have an interesting 

 small section exposing sandstone strata having casts of shrinkage 

 cracks, and others containmg pahroniscus scales, and other strata 

 containing carboniferous flora, calamites, and Icpidodendria. These 

 strata appear to be the equivalents of the strata on the south side 

 of the same trough, some of Avhich have attracted attention on 

 account of their highly bituminous character. These also contain 

 scales of paloeoniscus and carboniferous flora, Icpidodendria, cardai- 

 tes. I expect to iu\"estigate this part of the country more rigidly 

 if opportunity presents at some future time. I have yet to examine 

 j)ropcrly the remaining carboniferous or S.E. district of the county. 

 In the meantime I have nothing to add to the observations Avhich 

 Dr. Dawson has ah-(\'idy made on that district — (vide Acadian 

 Geology.) 



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