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J.P. Lesley on the Coal-measures of Cape Breton. 179 
Art. XVII.—On the Coal Measures of Cape Breton, N. B., w 
Section; by J. P. Lestey." (Communicated by the TueEy 
Tne following section was obtained in August, 1862, from the 
cliffs between Lin ngan and Great Glace Bays, on the east coast 
of Cape Breton, from sixteen to twenty miles east of Sydne 
Part of it was made out by means of a rope and ladder let down 
from the upper edge of the cliffs, where these overhung the sea, 
or occupied intervals between the short sand and gravel bere 
At the upper limit, which is also the northwestern end of t 
section, a square headland Bs He into the Gulf of St. hae 
rence between the Burnt risa and Lit- 
contour, caricaturing the human face in 
profile, by means of the over. —- 
ledge of hard sandrock at the m 
of A mass, and about half-way of the height of the cliff. See hed: 
Red shale belt: red and green 10; red 10; —*: red SL gen 
4; red 14; green 14, - 27 
Fire clay, the upper 5 feet crowded with small nodules of carbonate 
of iron; middle 2 feet sandy; lower 5 12 
Red shale 2 ~ over 2 feet of fire-clay, cade aii roti the ene 
crop of a plate of carbonate of iron, from ; 8 inches —_ 
for hundreds of yards along the face of the ¢ - 4 
Shales, with three black streaks, like the ou prec, "of coal beds, but 
mere discolorations of the shale: layers of smal] nodules of i iron 
occur in the lower 10 feet; the lowest 2 feet are mabe f - 22 
“i vo a 8 feet, over sandy shales 6 ites - 14 
A ie ; on fire- e-clay passing down in - : 1 
Sandeteus 6 fect : genuine black slate 2 ; Epday: ‘— - 16 
* Reprinted (with man dome : as ee by the author) from tne Proceed- 
ings of the American Philosop 
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