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The lower portions of this great series of sandstones are met with in 

 Little Gasp^ Cove ; where, in addition to the various species of fossil 

 plants already mentioned, are found the remains of what appears to be a 

 species of Calamites ; one specimen of which shows a flattened stem four 

 feet long, with a breadth of four inches. The inferior portion of the 

 formation skirts the north-eastward side of Gaspd Bay, and the North- 

 West Arm, from the cove, as far as the north branch of Dartmouth 

 River ; where it occupies a breadth of about 9000 feet, across the mea- 

 sures; giving, at an average dip of twenty-six degrees, a thickness of 

 about 4000 feet. On the south-west side of Gasp6 Bay, in the neighbor- 

 hood of Gasp^ Basin, the same strata rise with an opposite and more 

 precipitous slope, forming a trough under the bay. The thickness there 

 exposed is again about 4000 feet. The same beds next fold over an 

 anticlinal axis, which comes out upon the bay near Cape Haldioaand ; then, 

 dipping at a very moderate angle on the south-west side of the axis, beneath 

 the lagoon at the mouth of the River St. John, they re-appear, with a 

 nearly opposite slope, at the south-eastern end of Douglastowa Village, 

 and exactly face Great Cape Oiseau (Cap Brule of Bayfield's chart) and 

 Little Gaspe, on the north-east side of the bay. Following the coast, they 

 exhibit a slight sinuosity in Seal Cove (Brehaut Bay of Bayfield) ; and 

 at the extremity of Tar Point, between this cove and the next one farther 

 on, they fold over another anticlinal axis ; the position of which is indi- 

 cated by a remarkable greenstone dyke, holding petroleum. The direc- 

 tion of both of these anticlinals is nearly north-west and south-east. 



It is from this point to the termination of the series, in the cove imme- 

 diately northward of Pointe Jaune or Yellow Head, that the strata given 

 in the vertisal section are found. The coast cuts them obliquely ; and in 

 every step south-eastward from Tar Point, higher strata are met with, in 

 advancing, until Long Cove is reached, where the red sandstones are seen. 

 In this cove, the measures have a very moderate inclination, and a slight 

 protrusion in the line of strike causes the coast section of the cliff to present 

 a gentle arch in the centre, repeating a part of the beds. Farther on, 

 the section still gains upon the strata, in the vicinity of Red Head, and 

 beyond it ; until they are suddenly cut off by a fault, at the spot already 

 indicated as the termination of the series. Throughout the whole dis- 

 tance, the strata are seldom concealed ; and though several small faults 

 occur, the allowance that is to be made for them may be seen in the cliff, 

 which is generally bold. 



The two anticlinals which have been mentioned, appear to run parallel, 

 as well to the mountain ranges of the neighborhood, as to the calcareous 

 rocks on the north-east side of Gasp6 Bay. They may be about three 



