...addition to the bitumen, of small grains of transparent quartz, unmixed with other rock, but inclosing a few minute fragments of the pearly lining of a shell....filled with that mineral, and when struck yields the odor of Stinkstein. It is probable that the whole belongs to the same formation, b\it I do not possess...

...in a fluid state ; heated it emits a smell like that of sea coal." And Sir John Richardson says, " The whole country for many miles is so full of bitumen...readily into a pit dug a few feet below the surface." — Decantan. Peat. 1. St. Hubert, Q .................... Canada Peat Fuel Cumyany, Montreal. a. Specimens...

...from the banks lower down, and so impregnated is the whole country with bitumen that the oily liquid flows readily into a pit dug a few feet below the surface. The distance in a straight line from Clear Water River to the sources of the Athabaska is about three...

...description of the Arthabasca, he says that at Pierre au Calumet, and a few miles further down the river, the whole country, for many miles, is so full of bitumen, that if you dig a pit a few feet below the surface it flows readily into it ; and that below fiiviere Eouge...

...in a fluid state ; heated it emits a smell like that of sea coal." And Sir John Richardson says, " The whole country for many miles is so full of bitumen...readily into a pit dug a few feet below the surface." — Devonian. Peat. 1. St. Hubert, Q Canada Peat Fuel Company, Montreal. a. Specimens of peat prepared...

...hundred yards back from the river in the middle of a thick wood." Of another locality he writes : " The whole country for many miles is so full of bitumen,...readily into a pit dug a few feet below the surface," * and similar references abound in his Journal. "Where bitumen exists in such abundance on the surface,...

...in a fluid state ; heated it emits a smell like that of sea coal.'' And Sir John Richardson says, " The whole country for many miles is so full of bitumen that it flows rendily into a pit dug a few feet below the surface." — Devonian. Peat. 1 . St. Hubert, Q Canada...

...much hardness. The cliff is, in most places, capped by sand containing boulders of limestone. Every bituminous bed, carefully examined with the microscope,...readily into a pit dug a few feet below the surface. 1 Dr. George M. Dawson, Assistant Director of the Geological Survey of Canada, in his report on the...

...much hardness. The cliff is, in most places, capped by sand containing boulders of limestone. Every bituminous bed, carefully examined with the microscope,...readily into a pit dug a few feet below the surface. Dr. George M. Dawson, Assistant Director of the Geological Survey of Canada, in his report on the geology...

...so cemented by iron as to form a firm dark-brown sandstone of much Jiardness. * * The whole iwuntry for many miles is so full of bitumen that it flows...In no place did I observe the limestone alternating witli these sandy bituminous beds, but in several localities it is itself highly bituminous, contains...