..Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, volI-V . e exposed and have been utilized for the manufacture of tileand brick. Two beds of limestone, one of 10 inches and the other of 14 inchesin thickness, are obtained in quarrying the shale. This stone is used locallyfor building purposes—147. Northeast of Thedford a ridge of rock comes very near the surface andhas been opened at several places for the purpose of securing building excavations are too insignificant to be called quarries and no work hasbeen done for years. The stone is described below as specimen 148. The
..Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, volI-V . e exposed and have been utilized for the manufacture of tileand brick. Two beds of limestone, one of 10 inches and the other of 14 inchesin thickness, are obtained in quarrying the shale. This stone is used locallyfor building purposes—147. Northeast of Thedford a ridge of rock comes very near the surface andhas been opened at several places for the purpose of securing building excavations are too insignificant to be called quarries and no work hasbeen done for years. The stone is described below as specimen 148. The stone: No. 147.—A hard, thin bedded, semi-crystalline, highlyfossiliterous stone of grey colour. No. 148.—The better parts of this sample present a colour comparablewith that shown in Plate LXXVII, No. 11. On weathering, it appears tobehave very badly and to rapidly assume a dirty brownish yellow stone is largely of crystalline character and contains many fossils; it isapparently unsuited for other work than local construction of a ^ f €^-^ 1 I
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