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iGilametres ^® ^^^ Main scam, varies in tliickness as traced 

 along the outcrop or in depth, from less than 

 7 feet (2-1 m.) to 45 feet (13-7 m.)- Another 

 seam ranges in thickness from 20 feet (6 m.) 

 to 33-5 feet (10 m.). A third seam, the lowest, 

 varies in thickness from ii feet to 19 feet 

 (3-3 m. to 5-8 m.). 



In the western of the two main areas, there 

 are four main coal seams supposed to be the 

 equivalents of seams of the lower set occurring 

 in the Stellarton district. As in the eastern 

 district the individual seams vary widely 

 in thickness from place to place. The largest 

 seam varies in this respect from less than 4 feet 

 to 18 feet (i-2 m. to 5-4 m.). 



From Stellarton the railway continues for 

 about i^ miles (2-4 km.) along the west side 

 of the East river of Pictou, then crosses the 

 river and enters the town of New Glasgow. 

 A very short distance beyond the station, the 

 railway crosses the course of an east-west 

 fault limiting the area of the Coal Measures 

 in that direction. 



42-9 m. New Glasgow — Alt. 29 ft. (5-8 m.). 



69 km. 



THE NEW GLASGOW CONGLOMERATE.* 



(G. A. Young.) 



INTRODUCTION. 



Along the banks of the East river, in the vicinity of New 

 Glasgow, are exposures of a red, coarse conglomerate which 

 has received the name. New Glasgow Conglomerate. 

 This formation is the basal member of a very thick group 

 of strata which in a comparatively undisturbed condition, 

 floor the country north and west of New Glasgow, out- 

 cropping along the Nova Scotian and New Brunswick 

 shores of Northumberland strait for a distance of about 80 

 miles (130 km.), and underlying the whole of Prince 

 Edward Island. What have been described as equivalent 



See Map,— New Glasgow. 



