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outcrops lie in part on the side of a low ridge, in part along the shore, and
in part below highwater mark where the rocks are nearly continuously
exposed along their strike. The individual outcrops vary in character
from a width of several feet of schist bearing films and narrow discontinuous
streaks of finely granular magnetite to, in one case, a body of nearly. solid
magnetite 12 feet thick. In most places rock exposures are sufficiently
continuous to indicate that the individual films, streaks, and narrow
bands do not continue for more than 50 feet along their strike, which in
general coincides with the strike of the planes of schistosity of the enclosing
rocks. In places the magnetite streaks, etc., may be seen to die out in a
few feet along the strike. At one place a zone of films, streaks, and lenticu-
lar bands is exposed at intervals over a length of nearly 200 feet. In
places the immediately associated rock is rich in biotite and finely granular
quartz, is banded with narrow layers of nearly pure quartz, and others
which are dense and chloritic. In other places the rock is dense and carries
much finely disseminated epidote and in other cases the country rock
is a chloritie schist.

The outcrops of magnetite cease before the head of the small bay is
reached. Possibly the magnetite-bearing zone continues beneath the
waters of the bay, but since a number of barren rock exposures along the
shore and below highwater mark lie on the strike of the magnetite-bearing
zone it seems probable that the magnetite is not there developed. South
of the head of the bay exposures are wanting for a distance of 500 feet, but
recommence on the lower slopes of rising ground and continue southward
at wide intervals along the north side of a low ridge. Five hundred feet
southeast of the head of the bay, or 1,300 feet southeast of the last magnetite
exposure, outcrops of mineralized rocks recommence. They form at least
fifteen distinct outcrops in a zone 3,300 feet long and having a maximum
breadth of 200 feet. Less than ten other rock outcrops occur along the
zone, for nearly the whole country side is drift-covered.

The first outcrops, commencing at the north end, are green, epidotic
schists in which are a few stringers of quartz and films and small patches
of magnetite developed parallel to the planes of schistosity. Farther
southeast at one outcrop the epidotized schist, over an area about 5 feet
in diameter, carries magnetite in films, small patches, and small masses up
to 1 foot in length and 6 inches in breadth. At another outcrop, still
farther southeast, the planes of schistosity in the country rock are corru-
gated and along one such corrugation, magnetite forms a small body 1 foot
thick. Nearby the magnetite occurs in irregular, bed-like bodies fraying
out and disappearing in one direction, and in the other uniting into a
poorly exposed body of magnetite 4 feet wide and 10 feet long. At this
place, as elsewhere, the masses of magnetite, though having the general
appearance of conforming to the strike of the schistosity, do in places cut
across it at a small angle.

No further exposures occur over a distance of 650 feet to where are
outcrops of the usual epidotized and chloritic schist carrying much magne-
tite in two bands each about one foot wide. Southeast over a distance of
1,800 feet, seven groups of magnetite-bearing exposures occur with only
one intervening exposure of barren rock. The various exposures have a
general resemblance to one another but differ in detail. Several are so
grouped as to give a nearly continuous section across a width of 200 fect.
It seems possible that the schists are continuously mineralized over a