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Kiiomltres lake and passes through rock cuttings in the 

 quartzite series. Beyond this the railway 

 passes along the western shores of a small lake 

 and at Sandy Cove again approaches the shore 

 of Shubenacadie lake. 



25 m. Sandy Cove Station — -Alt. 62 ft. (18-9 m.). 



40-2 km. A short distance beyond Sandy Cove, the rail- 

 way swings away from Shubenacadie lake and 

 enters the Carboniferous area of the valley of 

 Shubenacadie river which flows from the lake 

 of the same name. The Carboniferous strata 

 consist of beds of gypsum, limestone, shale, etc., 

 and presumably belong to the Windsor series 

 (Mississippian) . The boundary between the 

 Carboniferous strata and the Goldbearing 

 series runs in a general easterly direction and 

 for some distance is rather closely followed Dy 

 Shubenacadie river. The railway crosses this 

 stream a short distance from Enfield. 



27-7 m. Enfield station — Alt. 63 ft. (19-2 m.). 



44-5 km. 



THE GOLDBEARING SERIES OF NOVA SCOTIA. 



(E. R. Faribault.) 



INTRODUCTION. 



The Goldbearing series of Nova Scotia occupies the 

 whole southern part of the peninsula of the province, 

 extending along the Atlantic coast from Canso to Yar- 

 mouth. The series consists of a great thickness of con- 

 formable quartzites and slates closely folded in long east 

 and west anticlines and intruded by many large batholiths 

 of granite and some dykes of diabase. In the neighbour- 

 hood of the granite the sediments are metamorphosed into 

 gneiss and schists. The age of the series cannot be deter- 

 mined by palaeontology as it is practically barren of fossils. 

 From lithological analogy the strata have been regarded 

 until recently as Lower Cambrian, but they are now 

 believed to be late Pre-Cambrian in age. The gold deposits 

 are in the form of quartz veins, chiefly interbedded, which 

 are found aggregated in large numbers on the domes of 



