120 SUPERFICIAL GEOLOGY OF DUNDAS VALLEY. 



FEET. INCHES. 



Hess Street 116 



Queen Street 114 



York Street, Cor. of Dundurn 102 6 



Kent's [Paradise]Park 109 



Desjardins Canal 109 



Old Mouth of Canal 109 



Leaving out of our calculation the elevations at Catherine and 

 John streets, we might give this beach an average elevation of no 

 feet. This added to the elevation of Lake Ontario, 232 feet would 

 give an average elevation about sea level of 342 feet thereby mak- 

 ing Burlington Heights a Beach equivalent to A in Mr. Roy's table. 



A section of Burlington Heights shows a series of strata consist- 

 ing of fine, coarse sand, gravel and pebbles, in alternate order. The 

 beds are much broken and give several angles and directions of dip. 



A section of an outlying spur of this beach in Beasley's Hollow on 

 measurement last Fall, gave a section in descending order ot 



FEET. INCHES. 



1. Soil 3 



2. Clay 14 



4, Coarse Conglomerate 3 



4. Sand, fine 3 



5. Stratified Coarse Sand 1 4 



6. Stratified fine Sand 4 6 (dips 1 deg.) 



7. Silt 6 



8. Clay 8 



9. Silt 6 



10. Clay 8 (dips 4 deg,) 



11. Sand partially concealed 



The dip of the beds in this section is to the west, or towards 

 the marsh. Bed No. 5. dips at an angle of one degree and No. 9 

 has a dip of four degrees. 



At the time of my making the measurement the face of the pit 

 shewed four bands of carbonate of lime running through it ; three, 

 in a vertical position and the fourth, running in the direction 

 of the dip but not parallel to the beds, but in a broken line 

 crossing and recrossing two or three of the beds. The three verti- 

 cal bands were from the three fourths of an inch to one inch in 



