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Ill 188!J, a uinrr tlmrnugli cxaiiiinatidu ot'lliis ccal ili>tiirl was 

 oanii-il out liy llic stall' of tin- Cu-ologicnl Siu-vt-y. Tliu result 

 is tlius (lescrilx-(l hy Mi-. Huwk'v : — " Si-veial soaius of i^ood coal 

 were found wliidi wvw uucovi-n-d at tlicii- outcroits, and liaccd 

 for sonic distance, so as to obtain accurate and n-liaMe mea>ui-e- 

 nieiits, and good average specimens of tlie i[uality of llie mineral. 

 Referring to tlie rejioit of tliat year it sliows that altogether four- 

 teen seaiiis of coal, of a varying thickness, from a few inclies up 

 to six feet weic uncovered on one small 1 nook ; three .-eam- on 

 another, two miles distant, and four small seams on a lidrd lirook, 

 -till farther ea.-t ward some two anil a half miles. . . . ''These 

 witli some smaller ones aggregate a thickness of 27 feet of coal in 

 the section which is repeated by being brought again to the siir- 

 fa3e on tlie other side of the synclinal trough. There is leason to 

 believe that the-e do not represent all the seams in this section. 



"In the central carlioniferous trough which wa- llie object of 

 special investigation la>l season, several seams of coal were found 

 in the region of the (Jraiul Lake, occupying another long, narrow 

 synclinal trough. Two sections cross this trough, ami at two 

 miles distant from each other on tlie strike, were measured with 

 the result that, in the first one, .sixteen outcrops of coal were ob- 

 served, and in tlie secoml, twenty-eight outcioiKs. Tliese are not 

 separate and distinct seams, Imt the same seams repeated by tlie 

 doubling up of tlie strata. Xone of the seams are large ; only 

 a few averaging three feet of coal each. Many of the smaller 

 seams of good coal are so close together, being divided only liy 

 five or six feet of loose shaly .strata, and all in vertical position,— 

 that I believe several of tliese could be worked as (me seam by 

 a single <lrift along the strike. All the coal as yet disco\ered in 

 this island is of the soft bituminous variety ; some of it ap- 

 proaches cannel coal.'' 



