"lead deposits on the flooding of river deltas. This Point Edward formation where the fossil Pennsylvanian and apparently correlates with the Pennsyr. North Sydney July 23-1913 First saw the "Millstone grit" a sand- time heavily cross bedded. This gradually goes over into the productive Coal Measures. a series of dark shales with their gneiss of sandstones and towards the top reddish shales. In the Millstone we sees no coral seams but on approaching the Coal Measures they begin to appear. Under most of the coral seams there is an old gril and stipmaria roots and often we sees Stipmaria clays amongst coal. Plants are rare and most of these are Stipmaria. In the shales as well in the sandstones there is considerable cementing matter. The thickest coal seen this afternoon is 6 feet. There are many seams from three inches up to 14 inches.