south. It may be assumed therefore, that these measures 

 also lie in the northern limb of a syncline. 



Along the road where after following a northerly course 

 for a short distance, it again turns and strikes to the west, 

 several exposures of conglomerate occur to the south of 

 the road, while on the road and in the fields on the north side 

 are outcrops of dark shale. A short distance farther on 

 in a low, small knoll, the conglomerate and the slaty rocks 

 are displayed in contact with one another, the strata dipping 

 steeply to the south. The road, apparently, follows the 

 northern boundary of the belt of conglomerates and 

 quartzites. 



At the place close to the shore where the road bends to 

 the north, several hummocks of conglomerate occur on the 

 east side of the road; their presence apparently indicates 

 the existence of a north-south fault lying just east of the 

 exposures. Northward, along the road, a single exposure 

 of dark shale occurs before the ending of the road at the 

 pier which apparently is situated almost directly on the 

 course of the above mentioned fault, the presence of which 

 is indicated in the strata exposed at low water along the 

 eastern side of the pier. 



At the beginning of the pier, conglomerate and quartzite 

 are exposed to the east. The strata are much fractured 

 and are veined with calcite. These measures form the 

 prominent ridge which fronts on the coast and extends for 

 several miles to the east. Similar strata are exposed on 

 the island on whose side the pier is built, and the general 

 characters of the conglomerate and quartzite are excel- 

 lently displayed in large exposures. 



On the island the strata dip towards the north at com- 

 paratively low angles. It is inferred that the strata of 

 the ridge along the coast occur in the form of an anticline 

 probably deformed by faulting, and that this band of 

 conglomerate and quartzite dips beneath the first zone 

 of dark slates to the south, and that these in turn dip 

 beneath the strata of the succeeding band of quartzite and 

 conglomerate. 



The general inferred succession of the strata displayed in 

 the immediate vicinity of Bic is as follows, arranged 

 in descending order, — 



(a) Dark slates with interbedded sandstone. 



(b) Quartzite with interbedded conglomerate. 



