It is estimated that an acre of this limestone, worked down to the water level, will yield 600,000 barrels of lime, upon which a mean profit of 25 cents a barrel is the minimum Some of this limestone is black and variegated, and makes pleasing ornamental marbles. Most of it is blue.

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Many vessels are employed in caiTving away lime, limestone, and "gravel" (pulverized limestone, not fit for the kiln) from Tomkins's Cove, for wlioso accommodation several small -wharves have been constructed.

One million bushels of lime were produced at the kilns each year. From the quarries, thousands of tons of the stone were sent annually to kilns in New Jersey. Troui 20,000 to 25,000 tons of the " gravel " were used each year in the construction of macadamised roads. The quarry had

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been worked almost twenty-five years. Prom small beginnings the establishment had grown to a very extensive one. The dwelling of the chief proprietor was upon the hill above the kiln at the upper side of the cove ; and near the water the houses of the workmen form a pleasant little village. The country behind, for many miles, is very wild, and almost uncultivated.

I followed a narrow road along the bank of the river, to the extreme

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southern verge of the limestone cliff, near Stony Point, and there sketched that famous, bold, rocky peninsula from the test spot where a view of its entire length may be obtained. The whole Point is a mass of granite rock, with patches of evergreen trees and shrubs, excepting on its northern side (at which we are looking in the sketch), where may be seen a black cliff of magnetic iron ore. It is too limited in quantity to tempt labour or capital to quarry it, and the granite is too much broken to be