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mineral resources of Newfoundland, addressed to Mr. W. C. 
Sargeaunt of London, then Crown Agent for the colonies, 
was published in the journal of the Society of Arts for 11th 
October, 1867. Returning to Newfoundland in August, he 
spent the remainder of the season examining Tilt Cove 
Mine and the surrounding country. While jumping from 
block te block in crossing a talus under one of the cliffs 
near Cape St. George early in the summer of 1866, he 
broke the tendon-Achilles of one of his legs, but in spite of 
this serious accident he continued his field-work for the 
remainder of the season, thereby preventing a satisfactory 
healing afterwards and he became lame for the rest of his 
life. 
In 1868, Mr. James P. Howley was appointed assistant 
geologist. During this and the next two years, the at- 
tention of both Murray and Howley was directed to the 
eastern part of the island. In April 1869, Murray came to 
Montreal to visit Sir William Logan and on his return to 
Newfoundland he examined the copper deposits of Bona- 
vista Bay, surveyed Terra Nova River and made a preli- 
minary examination of Bay East River. 
Surveys of the Exploits, the largest river in Newfound- 
land and of Red Indian Lake were made by Murray in 
1871, while Mr. Howley was examining the shores of Ex- 
ploits and Gander Bays. Sir Wm. Logan visited Murray 
in May of this year on his way from England to Montreal 
and spent about three weeks with him at his home in St. 
John’s. Murray devoted most of the year 1872 to equipping 
a small geological museum in St. John’s and arranging his 
specimens in it and also to preparing a general geological 
map of the island which was reduced by the late Mr. Robert 
Barlow to a scale of 25 miles to the inch. This map 
was engraved by E. Stanford of London and issued in 
1873. His field work this year was confined to the penin- 
sula of Avalon and a portion of the shores of Trinity Bay. 
The summer of 1873, was devoted to ascertaining the 
extent and possible productiveness of the coal-field of Bay 
St. George. In connection with this work, Murray traced 
