98 HOW ON ANALYSIS OF TWO SPRING HILL COALS. 



Art. VIII. — On the Analysis of two Spring Hill Coals. 

 By Henry How, Jr. Communicated by Prof. H. 

 How, D. C. L., King's College, Windsor, X. S. 



The following brief notes are offered to the Institute as a con- 

 tribution to the knowledge of the mineral resources of this province. 

 They relate to a coal field about which less is known than of the 

 Pictou and Cape Breton districts, but which presents many interest- 

 ing features. 



Late reports of the Geological Survey contain much interesting 

 information respecting it, but as no analysis of one of the coals now 

 referred to has appeared, I thought it, and a second analysis of one 

 already examined a few years ago, might be acceptable to the 

 members. 



My experiments were made in the laboratory of King's College, 

 Windsor, a privilege which I now gratefully acknowledge. 



The following brief notice* of the seams of the Springhill Coal 

 Field may be quoted to show their chief features. 



" At present the survey is not sufficiently advanced to speak 

 with any degree of certainty regarding the structure of the field or 

 the extent, thickness and position of the several seams. The evi- 

 dence so far as it goes, appears to show that in a distance of about 

 eight hundred yards horizontal measurement across the strike of the 

 measures, there are eight seams of workable thickness as under, in 

 ascending order : 



1 13' 6" 



2 6' 0" 



3 2' 4" 



4 12' 3* 



5 2' 6" 



6 a crop. . . thickness uncertain. 



7 4' 0" shaly coal. 



8 2' 0" 



Total 42' V 



* " Geological Survey of Canada," 1870-71, page 6. 



