182 J.P. Lesley on the Coal-measures of Cape Breton. 
Coal. Regular bed of bituminous coal, - 2 
went shales, foliated ; then — —_ in half inch layer 26, 
andstone then sandy sha 
Shales gray, blackish sees 5, "iets fesicliy ‘10 15 
Sa ndstone greenish, 6, contorted 8; the local false bedditig has 
ona would throw a "geologist completely off the track, leading 
him to suppose the country infested with high dips and faults 
whereas, careful instrumentation has : phanaamieageand an ee 
woe 
narily quiet and regular condition of things 4 
Fire-clay 2, shales gray, Sie harsh 4, gray, green 6, ‘% ae gray ° 20, 31 
Sandrock in three equal layer 6 
Soft fire-clay : top slate with ands of org, ne = > eee 
Coal half an inch, black slate six inches, - 4 
Fire-clay, passing further on into red, green a sind: yellow shales; thet 
sa 6, false-bedded shales 12, — cedures 2, 
blackish slates 8 
Sandstone, green, rough, shales passing into dass adie 12, baat: 
fully fa Ise -bedded, scalloped in all a like the blocks and 
aces of No. X (Upper Devonian) at viaduct of the Cone- 
zeae in prey Vaunty, Pennsylvania ein massive sand- 
stone 6 feet, 8 
Shales, yellow sandstone . top, becoming yellow shales and then at 
bottom black, - 20 
Catonste of. lime and i iron, a tight pies pad. . miele 5 
Sometimes 14 feet thick, but will not average more than 10 or 11 
inches. It forms a long fect into the sea, in the exact line of the distant 
headland. As a so litary specimen of this kind of rock in this section, 
it is all the more important to have it carefully traced inland. It rests 
on a green fire-clay full of nodules of ore, as large as filberts and walnuts, 
oxydized on the surface. a 
Blackish top slate, under which is a carbonaceous streak, - ee 
Shales (at the top sandstone balls a foot thick), yellow, ‘then green ie 
and full of nodules of ore 11, soft fire-clay 1, yellow, then sandy, = 
‘i cog clayey, then fre sey, 8, , blackish fre-clay, then gray 10,> © 3 
Fire-clay 2, with nodules of ore 2 fas sliales f relay fall of bd 
ules ‘as la arge as chestnuts; the appearan these sa hi ae 
ceeded with nodules of iron i is very ciking their gnarly, 
knobby outcrops form long reefs visible by lines of breakers 
as to prea of various shades 12, blue black 4, ee ig 
ow a 
nd green, é 
Sandstone, false- Fidded. then in n layers 12, , becoming clayey 4, blue ie 
fire-clay 5, - a1 
These are the last rocks seen at the north side of the mouth — 
of Great Glace Bay. The whole thickness of roc measured 
bs as follows :— 
5 sacha ER seepeapenatte Hird fet in all 907. 
