180 J. P. Lesley on the Coal-measures of Cape Breton. 
Slate cliffs; the top rock of the great coal bed; varying in compact- 
ness, but essentially a homogeneous mass of finely levigated and 
foliated sandy mud, - - . - - - . - 
Coal; the Hub Vein; slate 14, soft coal 14, solid 4, hard 1, —- 8 
Of this, only six feet is good workable coal, on the coast; but it in- 
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Cannel coal bed. This is no true cannel but a coal shale, compactly 
foliated, highly bituminous, burning well, but with much ash, and 
crowded with fish-scales and minute shells. It varies, and some- 
times reads thus; cannel, 8 inches; bituminous coal, 8 inches; 
clay, 14 inch; bituminous coal, 3 inches, - - 
Fire-clay, _.- - . > 
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Cannel coal, as above, - - i ~ ag ons 
Ire-clay, - - . 4 Fe * é . : M 
Sandstone cliff rocks 8 feet, over sandy shales 11 feet, - - 
Cannel coal, or jet black slate; sometimes growing compact like 
iS hl B, sive weath- 
u ering flaky 2, sandy flaky 9, sandy cliff shales 11, blackish 10, 
‘ y cliff shales 5, sandy shales 20, clay descending into sand- 
_ stone 21, In this last ‘hs 160 ns : 
