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made to improve the river road, which is certainly very steep 

 whore it passes over this quartzite and its associate rocks, but 

 had to be abandoned on account of the hardness of the rocks. 

 The outcrop on the river certainly indicates considerable thick- 

 ness and flinty hardness. The second quartzite is exposed at T- 

 Bogart's, in great masses on the east side of the road. The road 

 makers seemed to have shunned this. It is of equal hardness 

 with the preceding. It occurs 1.1 miles from it. The third 

 quartzite is at Rice's mill. This is fossiliferous (Diary, Thursday* 

 17th.) It is more like a sandstone. It is metamorphic, but not 

 in the same degree as the two preceding. It has cleavage, but is 

 of inferior hardness. Its extension is at Moose River, which is 

 also fossiliferous (Diary, Thursday, 24th). This is highly meta- 

 morphic and of equal hardness with Quartzites (1 and 2): 



5. Micaceous Slate. — A thick band of highly micaceous and. 

 black slate succeeds the first diorite (3) of the Moose River road 

 section. The outcrop of this is very striking. It looks like 

 roofing-slate, and divides very regularly into rhomboidal forms. 

 When split, the surfaces are coated with scales of mica, giving an 

 unctuous touch. 



Another micaceous black slate was observed in connection with 

 the great quartzite of Bear River. 



These slates very much resemble the micaceous strata of Nic- 

 taux Falls, except in compactness. As this properly may be 

 viewed as accidental, the resemblance may be regarded as indi- 

 cating the co-temporarity of the Nictaux slates, which I was led 

 to regard as of age prior to the strata with which they are asso- 

 ciated. Vide Paper in Transactions. 



STRATA. 



Argillites. — In describing these I shall sketch the Moose River 

 section. 



1st. — We have the red and grey strata north of the wharf of 

 Clementsport. The same appears in sections on the Digby side 

 of Bear River, at the Victoria Bridge. This is above diorite. 

 (1.) They are also seen in Deep Brook, at Ditmars farm, be- 

 tween Victoria Bridge and Clementsport. Here they extend 

 from the post-road to the beach of Annapolis Basin. They 



