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Leaving Gillies station the railway passes 

 over Nipissing diabase, Keewatin greenstones, 

 and conglomerate and greywacke of the Cobalt 



103. m. series, to the town of Cobalt, altitude 973 ft. 



165.7 km. (296.5 m.). The town is built on the west side 

 of Cobalt lake, a small, narrow body of water 

 about a mile in length. The population of the 

 town, according to the census of 1911, is 5,638. 



107. m. There is a steady descent of the railway for 



1 72. 1 km. about four miles to the town of Haileybury, 

 altitude 766 ft. (233.4 m.), on lake Temiskam- 

 ing. The rock-cuts and cliffs along the way 

 show exposures of conglomerate and grey- 

 wacke of the Cobalt series, and also of the 

 Nipissing diabase. 



