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the masses of serpentine in all directions. On the 

 eastern coast of Port-au-Port, rising out of the sea to a 

 nearly vertical height of 1,800 feet, is a mountain 

 known as Bluff Head. This mountain determines the 

 southern boundary of the serpentine. It was here 

 that asbestos first attracted attention. Bluff Head 

 was long known to the fishermen of the neighborhood 

 as "Cotton Rock," and the Hon. Philip Cleary, of 

 St. John's, was the first to equip a small expedition, 

 four years ago, to engage in the work of prospecting, 

 which resulted in the finding of this valuable sub- 

 stance. 



COAL AREAS. 



The principal carboniferous region of the country is 

 St. George's Bay, where coal was discovered about 

 fifty years ago by Mr. J. B. Jukes, who was for many 

 years Director of the Irish Geological Survey, and 

 who spent twelve months on the island and found a 

 coal seam three feet in thickness, containing cannel 

 coal of excellent quality, cropping out of the right 

 bank of the Middle Barachois Brook, on the south 

 side of St. George's Bay. His estimate of this small 

 portion of the coal basin of Newfoundland was 

 twenty-five miles wide by ten miles in length. In 

 1873 another seam was discovered by Mr. J. P. How- 



