. The geology of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, or, Acadian geology [microform]. Geology; Geology, Stratigraphic; Paleontology; Geology, Economic; Géologie; Géologie stratigraphique; Paléontologie; Géologie économique. 26 Tin; chusctts with their underlying conglomerates may be conaidorod a continuation oCtiie New Hrunswick beds.* Above these in Eastern Newfoundland is a slender representation of the lower part of the Upper (Cambrian, consisting of sandstones and Hags, often micaceous, with Linguln'. Himilar beds cap tiio Lower Cambrian in southern New Hrunswi
. The geology of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, or, Acadian geology [microform]. Geology; Geology, Stratigraphic; Paleontology; Geology, Economic; Géologie; Géologie stratigraphique; Paléontologie; Géologie économique. 26 Tin; chusctts with their underlying conglomerates may be conaidorod a continuation oCtiie New Hrunswick beds.* Above these in Eastern Newfoundland is a slender representation of the lower part of the Upper (Cambrian, consisting of sandstones and Hags, often micaceous, with Linguln'. Himilar beds cap tiio Lower Cambrian in southern New Hrunswick. Mr Fletcher, of the Cana<lian Survey, has found fossils indicating wliat is probably the same horizon in the slaty districts of southern Cape lireto!i. Mr Matthew regards these series as covering the whole succession from the Caerfai group of Hicks to the Lin(/tila-i\ajs,ii, ami the two great zones A and \i of Augelin in Sweden. There is, however, no certain evidence that any of these beds reach so higli as the horizon of the l*|- Tlu'se rocks of Newfoundland and tiie Acadian Provinces, containing what 1 formerly named the " Acadian group," | are in their litho- logical characters and fossil remains e([uivaleiits of the Longniynd, Menevian, and Lower Lingula-ilag groujjs of Kngland. In this connexion an important group of rocks is the Atlantic coast scries, or gold series of Nova Scotia, described by me in the Geological Society's .fournal in 18r)0, § and subse([uently in " Acadian Geology " and supplements thereto. j| This great scries, extending for more than 200 miles along the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, consists of dark-coloured quartzitc and slate in massive bands, the forn\er predominating below and the latter above, and the whole attaining to a thickness of perhaps 10,000 feet. In its western extension it appears to rest on rocks of Iluronian aspect, and where it is invaded by granitic masses and veins (Devonian in age) it as
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