Report of Progress for the Year ...Edward Stanford, 1881 |
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angle appear arenaceous bands Bay D'Espoir beds black slates Brook calcareous Canada Cape Anguille Carboniferous chains chiefly cliffs coal coarse coast Codroy River colour Conception Bay conglomerate copper course Cove dark grey diorites dislocation distance division east eastern eastward entrance fault feet thick Flat Bay formation fossils Gander Gander River George's Bay gneiss Grand Pond green greenish gypsum Hall's Bay Harbour Hare Bay head hills Howley Humber inches Indian intersected interstratified iron pyrites Island John's lake land latter Laurentian limestone Lower Silurian main river mass measures metalliferous micaceous mineral mountains nearly Newfoundland north side northern observed occur outlet peninsula Placentia Bay Port-a-Port probably quartz quartz veins quartzite Quebec group region Report rocks sandstone seams serpentine shale shore south side south-west strata stream strike surface thin Tilt Cove timber trough upper valley vertical west side western white quartz
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Page 292 - The attempts frequently made to enhance the value of the stock by declaring dividends, sometimes paid out of capital, 'but often by means of a process commonly known as 'picking the eyes out of the mine...
Page 535 - A Diocesan Map of the Church of England in Newfoundland and Labrador; Showing the Deaneries and Missions. Compiled...
Page 138 - ... although making many minor undulations; while on the Peninsula between Conception and Trinity bays the inclination is reversed, being nearly uniformly westerly, making many repetitions of the same strata however, as on the opposite side of the fold. Corresponding with this great anticlinal, the measure of the Intermediate rocks, as seen at parts of the eastern coast of Placentia Bay, appear, by the generally eastern dip which they present, to indicate the axis of a synclinal trough to run from...
Page 45 - The sediments which in the first part of the Silurian period were deposited in the ocean surrounding the Laurentian and Huronian nucleus of the present American continent, appear to have differed considerably in different areas. Oscillations in this ancient land permitted to be spread over its surface, when at times submerged, that series of apparently conformable deposits which constitute the New York system, ranging from the Potsdam to the Hudson River formation. But between the Potsdam and Chazy...
Page 76 - Range into a succession of small turbulent mountain brooks. 75 square miles, or 48,000 square acres, a very large proportion of which is available for settlement. For the most part, the country is well wooded with stout mixed timber, consisting chiefly of spruce, balsam-firs, yellow birch frequently of large size, white birch, and tamarack ; but there are also frequent spots of barren or spongy marsh entirely void of timber or only maintaining a very stunted growth of evergreens or small tamarack...
Page 152 - About 400 yards below the bridge the conglomerate is overlaid conformably by a set of dark brown or blackish shales, with a very fine lamination coinciding with the bedding, which, with some hard calcareous beds interst ratified, hold the banks of the brook until within a short distance of its exit into the bay.
Page 516 - Fossil plants, the bark of the stems of which were always converted into coal, abound in some of these sandstone beds on both sides of the lake, and at Coal Brook ; and thin irregular seams and nests of coal were observed in several places. Mr. Jukes, in his work on the Geology of Newfoundland, mentions the occurrence of a seam of coal 6 inches thick on the Coal Brook ; but this...
Page 284 - These are small ovate fossils five or six lines in length and about one-fourth less in width. They have a narrow ring-like border, within which there is a concave space all round. In the middle there is a longitudinal roof-like ridge, from which radiate a number of grooves to the border. The general aspect is that of a small Chiton or Patella, flattered by pressure. It is not probable, however, that they are allied to either of these genera.
Page 417 - The southern side of the Exploits presents an unbroken dense forest, in a series of gentle undulations, far as the eye can reach. From the Victoria River to the head of the Red Indian Lake, the country is well-timbered throughout." ..." With a splendid river, abundant timber and a fertile soil, this region is marked out for a prosperous settlement.
Page 143 - ... from the latter, at that time a more or less loose accumulation of volcanic ash and breccias which were swept into the sea in a comparatively fresh and undecomposed condition. TORBAY SERIES The Torbay series was not studied by the writer. Murray's description of it is inserted here for completeness : Green, purple, pinkish, or red slates in frequent alternations; the texture of these slates is generally extremely fine, and in some cases they approach in hardness to jasper or chert. The fracture...