LOWER MAGNESIAN LIMESTONE. 



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In tracing the layers along tho face of these natural walls, they show much tendency 

 to change, and it is only by close observation and great care that an accurate coiTclation 

 of different sections can be made, and considerable variation is to be expected where 

 much distance intervenes. 



This changeableness wiU be manifest by comparing the preceding section with the 

 two following, both taken from the same quarter section (S. W. qr. Sec. 25, Mukwa). 



Em. 32. 



1. Barth. 



2. Mognesian limestone. SO inches. 



3. White sandstone. 3 Inches. 



4. Magnesian limestone. 8 inches. 



5. Oolitic silicious limestone. 7 inches. 



6. Magnesian limestone. 9 inches. 



7. Sandstone. 8 inches. 



8. Thick even-bedded magnesian limestone. 34 inches. 



9. Oolitic silicious limestone. 5 inches. 



^j.;:;^^ 10. Sandy magnesian limestone of irregular hodding and texture. 30 inches. 

 11. Irregularly bedded sandstone, marked with iron. 32 inches. 

 Total thickness, 10 feet and 6 inches. 



Fig. 38. 



1. Earth. 



3. Yellow sandy and oolitic magnesian limestone. 18 inches. 



3. Green sandstone. 4 inches. 



4. Oolitic magnesian limestone, as above. 30^ Inches. 



5. White sandstone. 3 inches. 



6. Oolitic magnesian limestone, as above. 9 inches. 



7. Yellow sandstone. 4 inches. 



8. Sandy silicions limestone. 13 inches. 



9. Oolitic layer. 3 inches. 

 xc^ 10. Sandy and Oolitic limestone. 13 inches. 



!^^.,-_-.'.-:. 11* Yellow sandstone, marked with green. 15 inches. 

 Total thickne.ss, 8 feet and 6^4 inches. 



The increase of silicious matter in the latter is very noticeable. This is perhaps due 

 to the fact that the ledge from which the section is taken here approaches within a haK 

 mile of the Archtean outcrop of granite in this town, previously described. As it arose 

 into the Lower Magnesian horizon, it might perhaps rationally be supposed to produce 



