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Kiiomeu-es to underlie the Windsor beds and for this reason 

 were assigned to the Devonian by Hugh Fletcher. 

 If, as the evidence seems to indicate, the 

 "Devonian" beds so underlie the Windsor 

 strata, it is still probable that they are of 

 Carboniferous age and they may, in part at 

 least be the equivalents of the Horton series. 



16-5 m. Kennetcook Station. — Alt. 97 ft. (29-6 m.). 



26-5 km. At Kennetcook station the area of the Windsor 

 series traversed by the railway narrows to a 

 width of less than 1 mile (i-6 km.). The 

 narrow band of the Windsor series is bounded 

 on both sides by "Devonian" strata. On the 

 northern side, the "Devonian" measures occupy 

 a ridge about 11 miles (17-1 km.) long and 2 

 miles (3-2 km.) wide. The strata forming 

 this ridge seem to lie in a shallow synclinal. 

 They carry thin seams of coal and as pointed 

 out by Fletcher, they resemble the Millstone 

 Grit, though he mapped them as Devonian. 

 Practically nothing is known concerning the 

 palseontological evidence of the age of the 

 so-called Devonian strata. As already stated, 

 it is entirely likely that portions of the "De- 

 vonian" strata underlie the Windsor series, 

 but it is equally probable that other portions 

 are younger than the Windsor series and that 

 they may be of Millstone Grit age, perhaps 

 are in part equivalent to the Riversdale-Union 

 group. The non-recognition of the presence 

 of Pennsylvanian strata in the "Devonian" 

 areas may have been due to the lack of any 

 pronounced unconformity between the Millstone 

 Grit and older Carboniferous, a condition that 

 obtains in a number of the Carboniferous 

 districts of Nova Scotia. 



20 m. Patterson Station. — At Patterson and for 



32-2 km. several miles to the eastward, the railway 

 passes through the "Devonian" area bounding, 

 on the north, the narrow strip of Windsor strata. 

 Two miles (3-2 km.) to the east of Patterson 

 station the railway again enters the band-like 

 area of the Windsor series. About a mile 

 farther the railway crosses the divide (altitude 



