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‘ire limestonv rouglomeratu This last rrnp~ out ﬁlm! on the t'tmsl

at on» Prescott, and I.) i pt'esmn't' there along the strike or the

lltlltwlullc lu-ds of Norman luu‘l‘

'er lslnnd. Ihrou‘s light upon llu' lrrlouir

tlt~lttl'llt|llt‘t‘.\ In whirl: Iln- Ilistru't has lit-en sulriertt-d. The line of thesv

dislurhant'es i~ iudit'nled again on the \\‘P.~l.

d:- ot' Franklin Herm- Bay. where the beds of the tinieston ronglomorate. dipping rertit'ally to tho

strike t'roiu tho altitude nl (lape H on. are out off by a dark

limestone broken don-o lo the rousistunr)‘ ot a breoriaf‘ Feilden and Dr Rance also mention a disturbunre pron-curling east-

u-esttrnrds from Norman liookrer lsand, As regards the stratigraphical

position ol the beds on the north side of Pl'lllt't *s .Vlarie Buy, the

views ot thns» Ilisroverors diller from thost- of S in that they won-

tend that the conglomerate h'mn (Zapv l’resrott is “the basemonl conglo- merate". whilst Scum's studies uppoor to prove that tl is a younger conglomerate-horizon, the stratigraphic position of whirh is above the limestone of Norman Lockyer Island,

R. l’. \VttlTl-‘IEm in his previously mentioned work, "Observations

u‘ Fosails". dcsrrihes from the limestone

amt Desuiptions of Arc 'snn Raceplamililes. Htilysilest Heliolitesa Unlupwciat and Slromuloporu which according to him glresas rerent tlll age as the

From (Iape Hnr

Niagara or Clinton period. These loss s must then presumably have

been taken from a comparatively high horizon.

Unlortuuately we have no fossil collections troin Sound: L-xrur-

from other looalihe,

Minus. either from the northern di ,t.» or

II thesn- regions beyond those already mentioned.

Nor are we able to report anythil ' more of ooto from his diaries as to geological observations of the sedimentary beds in theso re- gions.

One riror protil which was made on the north side of the inner part of Flagler Bay. slows oxtronwly lretpient faults by “'llll‘lt the id limestone

strata hero consisting of litllt'slone. rolrarrous sandstono.

ronglomerale. are divided into nuuu-rous pieces. \Vilh regard to tho sedimentary rot-ks and lhoir distribution it is

umntiont-d that Flagloany is rntn'l) surroumlz-d by them. whilst

around Ileitstod llny they are only lound on tho ~|Inuuits. The huge tliu‘lllthk' intrusions which tH't'Ul' easterly on llovho poninsnla appear to

In- tarkiog in lhesl- \vt-slorly regions,

'5 Sound tho stratilicd rm cannot be

On the south Mlle ol Ha. discovored except in Mount Carey.