Ste 
850 H.. Y. Hind on the Laurentian and 
to the Tusket Islands, near Yarmouth, a distance of about one 
hundred and thirty-five miles in an air line. 
Prince Edward Island series, resting on Lower Carboniferous 
rocks. 
The entire series from the Lower Carboniferous downward, 
with the exception of the Devonian, is passed over in a journey 
by rail from Windsor to Halifax, in a distance of fourteen miles. 
The Devonian occurs at Nictau, and rest there on Aad Silurian 
slatest which probably sweep round the Falmouth mountains 
and connect with the Upper Silurian near Windsor. 
8. Sequence of Formations—The Upper Silurian. 
On the St. Croix river, eight miles from Windsor, the Lower 
Carboniferous grits are seen to rest on Upper Silurian argillit 
_ *In Cape Breton, at Jum 
on the Gulf coast, and at Tr 
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