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Nova Scotia coal areas, and would also give a greater probable value to the 

 productive Coal Measures. In so far as these are concerned, the quality and 

 distribution of the coal would seem, as might be expected, to resemble that 

 in the eastern coal fields of Cape Breton. The beds as yet found appear 

 from Mr. Howley's report to be six in number, ranging from 14 inches to 

 8 feet in thickness, three of them having over four feet of good coal. The 

 coal is apparently a free-burning bituminous variety, resembling that of the 

 Cape Breton mines. 



