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voluminous, were published year by year in St. John’s, and 
some of them were reprinted in Montreal. When Mr. 
Howley made reports on the work assigned to him these 
were also published along with Mr. Murray’s. On Murray’s 
retirement from the direction of the Newfoundland Survey, 
he went to live at his native town of Crieff in Scotland. 
He had previously revised his annual reports and in 1881, 
he republished them at his own expense in one volume, 
through Hd. Stanford of Charing Cross, London, along with 
a large orographical map of Newfoundland(65 x 58 inches). 
The space at our disposal will scarcely permit of even a 
brief summary of the scientific results of the Geological 
Survey of Newfoundland, which are clearly set forth in the 
official reports. They include the blocking out of the dis- 
tribution of the rock-formations over the whole island and 
the tracing of them in more detail in certain areas where 
they were of most interest either scientifically or econo- 
mically, such as on the west coast from Cape Ray. to 
Bonne Bay, on the south side of Notre-Dame Bay and 
around some of the bays in the eastern part of the island. 
The greater part of the interior has been shown to consist 
of Laurentian and Huronian rocks. Cambrian strata fringe 
all the great bays in the east and occupy a large area 
between Trinity and Bonavista Bays. Cambrian and Silu- 
rian formations are developed all along the west coast and 
also at the head of White Bay on the north side, and small 
patches. of Devonian sandstones, ete., were identified 
between Canada and Hare Bays north of White Bay. The 
Carboniferous rocks with thin seams of coal around Bay 
St. George and the north end of Grand Pond were carefully 
mapped out. 
The general strike of all the formations throughout the 
island is north-easterly and south-westerly. The Upper 
Laurentian with crystalline limestones and titaniferous 
_iron ones forms the western flank of the Long Range (of 
mountains) lving eastward of Bay St. George. Elongated 
areas of granites and greenstones occur among the crys- 
talline rocks in various parts, all having the same general 
