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demned by the men as useless, so strong is the pre¬ 
judice of people wedded to a preconceived opinion. 
Pushing on into Coal Bay, where we expected to find 
even a better quality, our surprise was great to see 
no indication of a seam, or any trace of coal what¬ 
ever. There was nothing of interest here to detain 
us after this natural disappointment, and we sailed 
away further into Green Harbour ; and as this place 
looked a likely one for continuing our geological 
studies, only so lately roused by the search for carbon, 
we examined closely along the coast for fossils of every 
kind. Good eyes once opened upon any special sub¬ 
ject are sure to be rewarded, and our search produced a 
heap of specimens of great geological interest, to us at 
least. Here we found shells, and wood, and leaves of 
trees fossilized, and showing the structures of their or¬ 
ganization perfectly. Here in former times deciduous 
trees must have flourished, or why should their stems 
and leaves abound in a fossil state at the present day ? 
We found semi-fossil bones of the whale and other 
animals of a later geological period; and we noticed that 
the water, so pure and delicious to the palate, was too 
hard to combine with soap in producing a lather in the 
usual way, and our cocoa paste declined to combine 
with it under any amount of compulsion. 
