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ANNOTATED GUIDE 



Halifax to Windsor. 



(G. A. Young.) 



Miles and 

 Kilometres. 



om. Halifax. Leaving Halifax station, the Inter- 



okm. colonial railway passes rock cuttings in dark 



slates of the upper division of the Goldbearing 

 series. The strata dip to the southeast at angles 

 of from 20° to 65 . In a short distance the rail- 

 way closely approaches the shore of the narrows 

 connecting Halifax harbour with Bedford 

 basin, and enters an area underlain by the lower 

 quartzite division of the Goldbearing series. 

 The strata dip regularly to the southwest at 

 angles of between 50 and 8o° and are exposed 

 in rock cuttings along the railway. 



4 om. Rockingham Station. One mile past Rock- 



6-4 km. ingham, at Birch cove, an anticlinal axis in the 

 quartzites is crossed. On the north side of the 

 axis, the strata, (exposed in numerous cuts), 

 dip to the northwest at angles varying bet- 

 ween 20° and 45 



Two miles farther, at Mill cove, a synclinal 

 axis is crossed. 



8.6 m. Bedford Station. Bedford is at the head of 



13-8 km. the inlet along whose shores the railway follows 

 from Halifax. The depression of the inlet is 

 continued inland by a valley bounded by hills 

 rising to heights of 200 to 400 feet (60 

 to 120 m.). The railway crosses this valley and 

 enters a low, rough, hilly country with many 

 small, irregular lakes lying at various elevations 

 up to 300 feet (90 m.) and more, above the sea. 

 Numerous rock cuttings in quartzites occur 

 along the railway, the strata dipping to the 

 southeast at angles of from 20 to 40 . 



Two and one quarter miles (3.6 m.) beyond 

 Bedford a low height of land with an elevation 

 of 140 feet (42 -6 m.) is crossed. The waters on 

 the northern side of this divide drain northward 

 to the Bay of Minas. 



