At 9.30 we saw quite a large village, Bliss Bay: in the last hour we saw two vessels, one a steamer the other schooner. The large four story colliery building near the town is in synclinal only the strata dipping from the north and south towards it. At 12.30 P.M. we arrive at the colliery area we are to take our coal for the return trip, Kelly's Cove Cape Breton. The ship anchors within thirty feet of the shore. Soon after our arrival the throwing out of the talast begins to make oars for the coal. At three P.M. Mr. White and I go ashore to examine the coal mine. When the Hike anchors there is a mountain of granite at least 1000 feet high. At a much lower level against the granite rests a very small altered dolomite followed by a sandstone shale with coals. These strata have a gentle dip away from the granite nucleus but towards it they become more and more tilted until near the granite they are vertical. A peculiarity of the dolomite is that it has been partially weathered out where it joins the granite leaving a deep and narrow gorge. We collected a piece of the granite, dolomite