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ravine toward Sassen bay. A sandstone fragment, obtained by 

 the writer on the bluff along the east side of Advent bay, shows 

 an imperfect mould of an Astarte which Dr. R. P. Whitfield 

 thinks related to a Cretaceous form found in the Rocky moun- 

 tain region. Curious ferruginous concretions are abundant and 

 the sandstones often bear markings similar to those long re- 

 garded as fucoids. 



The beds are evidently conformable throughout, but they are 

 not undisturbed. The general dip is N. 30° W. Mag. (error i 5° 

 W.) at the rate of three feet per hundred. Faulting is not in- 

 frequent. The original heading at the Fangen mine reached at 

 somewhat more than fifty feet a downthrow fault, which was 

 followed for nearly thirty yards before the work was abandoned. 

 The crushing along the fault is slight and the throw, as is seen 

 in a hard sandstone above the crop, does not exceed six feet. 

 Other faults were observed in the face of the cliff, but they are 

 all insignificant. 



The coal bed opened by Mr. Fangen is not the only one. 

 The outcrop of another is distinct at perhaps three hundred feet 

 below the crest, which Mr. A. E. Stevenson found on the oppo- 

 site side of Advent bay to be 1,600 feet (by barometer) above 

 the water. This bed is of workable thickness, but at present 

 it is practically inaccessible, being about 1,300 feet above the 

 shore. Traces of an intermediate bed were seen, but nothing 

 has been ascertained respecting it. 



The coal has been traced around the face of the cliff along 

 Icefiord to and along Sassen bay, a distance of more than ten 

 miles ; and Mr. D. H. Morris, following a ravine between Ad- 

 vent and Sassen to its head in the plateau, found fragments of 

 coal along the whole distance. The outcrop of the lower bed 

 is thoroughly distinct to the head of Advent bay on this easterly 

 side. A coal cropping appears on the westerly side at a little 

 way above the anchorage, whence croppings were followed to 

 Icefiord and for some distance along the southerly shore. Coal 

 is mined in a ravine comiing down almost to the anchorage and 

 an abandoned opening was seen at almost a mile further north- 

 west, where a Holland company had marked out a claim. Pro- 



