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series below. It especially abounds in fish scales and Cy there; and several of the 

 fishes are specifically identical withthoseof the upper part of the Middle Coal Measures, 

 as seen in the southern trough south of New Glasgow. These beds are about 200 feet 

 (60 m.) thick. 



S. The beds up to this point may be considered the equivalents of the Middle 

 Coal Measures, or of the upper part of them, and are now succeeded in ascending order 



by thick grey and reddish sandstones, and reddish and grey shales These 



may be regarded as belonging to the Upper Coal formation ' 



The New Glasgow Conglomerate in the form of a band 

 about I mile (o-8 km.) wide, extends eastward from New 

 Glasgow to the shores and islands of Merigomish harbour, 

 distant about 6 miles (9-6 km.). The measures in this 

 band dip uniformly northward at angles ranging between 

 45° and 60° along the southern edge of the band, and 15° 

 to 30° along the northern margin. In the eastward exten- 

 sion of the formation sandstones become relatively more 

 abundant and, on the islands in Merigomish harbour, 

 sandstones predominate over the conglomerates. West- 

 ward of New Glasgow, the conglomerate outcrops over a 

 band-like, area for a few miles, but beyond this, owing to 

 folding, faulting, etc., the band-like character is lost. 



East of New Glasgow, the conglomerate directly overlies 

 measures that by all geologists have been ascribed to the 

 Millstone Grit. West of New Glasgow, for a distance. of 

 about I mile (i-6 km.), the conglomerate rests on strata 

 generally ascribed to the Millstone Grit, but beyond this 

 point, the New Glasgow Conglomerate is separated by faults, 

 from the adjoining strata on the south, or where not 

 bounded by faults, rests on strata considered to be 

 Devonian or older. Nowhere in the general district, does 

 the New Glasgow Conglomerate come in direct contact 

 with the Coal Measures. 



East of New Glasgow, the New Glasgow Conglomerate 

 and the underlying Millstone Grit dip, as stated by Logan, 

 [11] "in such a way as, without other evidence, to induce 

 the supposition that the one series overlies the other con- 

 formably". To the eastward, the Millstone Grit strata 

 are displayed over a wide district but approaching New 

 Glasgow, these measures because of the presence of an east- 

 west fault are limited to a very narrow zone and are followed 

 to the south, beyond the fault, by the Coal Measures. 



In the partial geological section displayed in the vicinity 

 of New Glasgow, along the west banks of East river, 

 a few exposures of the New Glasgow Conglomerate 

 dipping northward at an angle of 60°, occur above the 

 highway bridge. Along the river side, above these out- 



