J.P. Lesley on the Coal-measures of Cape Breton. 181 
Top slat a 6 
Coal ; ciate black slate wills es i of a. - - 4 
Fire-cla 5 
Shales: P black ga soft 4, any 2, wih poor ‘sandy ball ore % ray 
senegons flinty 1, fire-clay, compact below, 6, sandy shales 6, yel- 
w 6, gray 6, soft sandy gray 12, soft shales (nipped ony) 5, false: 
pied sandy shales, hard at top, s solt at bottom, 17, 694 
This great mass of sandstone, thrown up ata ine angle, not by any 
general structural movement, but by original oblique deposition, has here 
resisted the wearing action of the waves, and left a curious and instruc- 
tive promontory. The mass begins at the bottom with 3 inches of pure 
clay, under which is an inch of 
Cannel coal which burns well and is full of fish scales. 
Shales, soft yellow, concretionary, clay slates 7, harder 1, gray 24, 
with iron nodules along its base, gray 4, soft paseo one 
sandy foliated 3, top = i, gray, blackish + foot, - 
Cannel coal, or flaming slat 1 
Hard — le}, coaly matter halt an inch, hard sandy. shales 3, com- 
paet 
Ties are meee lowest rocks seen ietive reaching Little Glace Bay en- 
trance, in the low banks, which fall off suddenly into the deep channel 
ebay. A slight break in the section takes place here; it cannot 
be more than a few feet. The section commences again at the summit 
of the headland projecting from the south side of the bay, and runs 
thence uninterruptedly to the mouth of Great Glace Bie ay. 
Soft measures under the soil, - . 10 
Coaly top slate 4 inches, CATER, coal 4 Golan 
eavamnok rails 1, green clay with horses of aud 4, feels 2, 
mpact 2, more sandy, Senger. macnn 2, eg sae: 
ste, thin flag-courses 
Shale fire clay 3, Ma  siettee 4, sandy compact 24, i in pencils 6, sandy 4 
15, crumblin 
The profile of . mass is one of singular architectural beauty. ‘See 
woodeut (p. 179). (n 
Sandrock 8, lnckiak: shales and fire-clays 4, sandrock massive 10, 
sandy fire-clay 2, shaly sandstone with six inch courses " dark 
shales 74, flags 3, gray top shales 14, - 4 
Bituminous slates with one inch of cannel in inet dst, 
Shale fire-clay 1, sandy 1, sandstone 2, sandy 11, sacachay 5; 
whole forming cliffs beetling over the > names (woodeut %), - Cae 
1, Harbor vein, - - 5 
Wrought by the inhabitants for many years in an entry from the 
beachi:: A-new opening has been made on the outerop where it crosses 
to the northwest side of the harbor below the new brid, 
Bhales foliated, under which lies a plate of carbonate of j iron three 
ches thick, sometimes breaking up into balls, 
Cake with a centre streak of jet, perhaps sbaeintetatic of the bed, 
for it appears again in it at the new bridge, - 
red, green, } yellow 74, hard clay sandstone 2, clk dais 5, 144 
