now TO CURE THE CHILLS. 
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the freshening breeze blowing it through our clothes tor 
several hours, and, in the words of Hartman, chilling us 
iQ&vfidly. bTevertheless, this unpleasant alternative proved 
to be in store for us ; and wm only escaped it through the 
generosity of the boat’s crew, who insisted upon jumping 
out as soon as we struck, thus lightening the boat greatly, 
and enabling them to wade her up to the nearest point of 
the beach. When W'e had thus reached the dry land, how- 
ever, they paid severely for their kindness, in the shape 
of several severe cases of chills, which the doctor at once 
took in hand with professional activity and “knocked 
spots out of” at once. Being debarred access to his medi- 
cine-chest by a mile or more of salt water, he hauled a 
bottle of brandy out of his pocket, and, having divided it 
into six doses, told them to “drink that,” after which they 
expressed themselves considerably “ivarmed up;” and, 
when we reached the blazing coal-fire which Lawdon had 
already got under way, they might be said to have been 
in better condition than when we started. 
Upon looking around us we noticed three or four coal- 
strata, instead of one only, and found, also, that they 
wore quite extensive. They were from eighteen inches 
to three feet in width, ran at an inclination of about forty- 
five degrees with the surface of the sea, in a northwest 
and southeast direction, (which W'as about parallel witli 
the trend of the valleys,) and passed entirely through the 
promontory. This latter was from three to four hundred 
feet in height, was possessed of very steep and precipitous 
sides, and wms reared upon several most singular forma- 
tions. There was feldspar, argillaceous iron-ore, and a 
kind of secondary sandstone, — a petrifaction evidently, 
