and away from the iron apparently to the S.E. strike about N.E.-S.W. magnetic. Towrds the top of the series in the cut there is a gray red shale, much finer sandy and decidedly micaceous (silvery). A prominent layer first and then about 8 feet of light red shales, then thick fine sandstone. All of this material is too regular of deposits to be other than a crevicing deposit. One sees not the slightest trace of life, not even of burrows nor of faciès. The sands are not altogether a clean sand but is somewhat clastic with green muds, or that they must have juelled down and some unmoved by the rains. Would they been moved and channelling I should have seen more bedding, more commingling. Going east from the railway we soon come to the Grandiere river and here along the west side there is a fine exposure of the above sands- stone followed by red shales and then more sandstone, but now in thinner beds. From the bridge