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more a 1500 to 2500 feet high. ey were entirely composed 
of Azoic rocks, of which a silvery greenish rock of talcose appear- 
ance, but very hard, predominates. u seams, slates and 
uartzite rock are abundant; and a rock resembling ernie but 
with a superfluity of feldspar, and no mica, rarely. The s 
generally have a northwesterly di 
rue granite appears only one ar rmination of the 
Ramparts, and fo ledge extending across the river and mak- 
ing a rapid; not, however, a dangerous one les or less, 
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river of mountain ns) comes in and from this point to the mouth, as 
a rule the river is wide, with the right bank high and the left bank 
0 river 
(50 miles 5) he Hight ba bank presents in their order: conglomerate, 
luffs = zat gravel, blue talcose slate, conglomerate, 
hard blue slates a artzose rocks, blue sandstones and a so 
ous rock (Plutonic) with ee stellate spots in it. Granite is 
very rare and mica also. und fine specimens of obsidian 
on the beach and just above “the Rotoee pebbles of Niagara 
limestone salon its Stes ana, fossils. From the bend we d 
think covers the blue slates. The coal seam m is very limited, being 
on the extreme point of a bluff and the greater part of it has been 
denuded. The fossils are very poor, vegetable, and resemble Fuci. 
The coal is of good quality, bituminous, non-caking, and leaves 
i a The seam is 16 in. w 
e paar ae continue pacha the river some 45 miles, more 
Ni a in five sided agen on the beach.] From 
to the mostly low , but when they approach a 
river they are y invariably blue hard ralaky ae andstone or sandy slate: 
the rock passing from one into the other i mo omy tibly. s for- 
mation extends to St. Michaels, nearly w: rahe 
volcanic rock takes its place, sind collie ep ths shore of Norton 
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