Hædn dull grey shale, mostly shale at tj, in which many fossils occur; Lingula, Ostrella, some trilobites, simple and emprinted grapstolite. 6' 6'' Dark blue earthy bands of li, from 5 to 6 inches thick, with Hædn or dull grey shales alternating in almost equal proportions. Upper part filled with fossils, chiefly grapstolite. 23' 7'' Black Shales with numerous grapstolite. 40' 8'' Dull grey calcareous sandstones, varieties of from 6 inches to a foot thick. 20' 9'' Crasse grey breeiated li. or conglomerate with calcareous sandstone again on tj 30' '' The last beds [9] of the section, hold the coast northerly for a distance of 1 mile, dipping N. 60 W. < 2°. They then turn into the land with a more northerly dip and are succeeded by red, green, and Hædn shales, with occasional beds of grey sandstone and thin bituminous and conglomerate limestones, all once in less disturbed by small faults, the shales at one place exhi- biting most extraordinary contortions.