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Superficial materials, 4 ft. 



Black shale, containing Lingula, Chonetes Smithii, Pro- 



ductus axperus and Spirifer cdmeratus, 3 ft. 



Sandstone, tinged with iron, 1 in. 



Shale, 1 ft.. 



Sandstone 3 in. 



Shale, 4 ft. 



Sandstone, 6 in. 



Shale to surface of water, 10 in. 



A short distance west of here the section is seen to be ex- 

 tended upwards by the superposition of 1 inches of sandstone 

 and five feet of an overlying shale. The bed of the river here 

 is covered by a somewhat undulating and shattered gray sand- 

 stone which is considerably quarried for building. At a point' 

 on the N. E. J, section 35, Flushing, a sandstone was seen to 

 attain a thickness of about 12 feet, in an excavation made by 

 Mr. Niles. 



On the N. E. \ of S. W. \, section 22, Flushing, a shaft was 

 sunk on the farm of A. J. Brown, of which the following account 

 was obtained : 



Superficial materials, 14 ft. 



Sandstone, below, bluish, gritty, 8 ft. 



Coal, 2^ in. 



"Horseback claystone," (Blackband?) 2 ft. 



Same with kidney iron ore, 2 ft. 



Shale, 5 ft. 



Sandstone and salt water, 3 ft. 



Shale '. 4 ft. 



"Black hard stone," combustible, 4 ft. 



White Fire-clay, 2 ft. 



Hard white sandstone, 2 ft. 



Darker Sandstone, Unknown. 



Striped sandstone, 3 ft. 



Shale, • Unknown. 



" Coalblaze" with bands of iron ore, 11 ft. 



A small hole was bored from this point to the depth of 12 

 feet in the last named material, making the total depth attained 

 83 feet. 



The work seems to have been directed by " Prof. Challis." 

 The shaft is now filled with salt water. 



