Thursday August 25 - 1910 Buckeye Cove As it threatens to rain I remain at Peters Hill. Carboniferous In the first of Newfoundland p. 262 it is stated that in the valley of the Hunter and Deer Pond, and again in the valley of the Grand Pond, Indian Brook to Halls Bay the Carboniferous rests directly on the Laurentian gneiss. There was therefore here in Carboniferous time no Ordovician deposits. The Carboniferous now lies in low places but Murray thinks it once lay been rubbed away from the higher places. So far as I can learn the marine fossils are in the lower part near the gypsum while the little coal that is known comes higher up. About 3000 feet of Coal is known. It seems more probable to me that the Coal never extended across the mountains and that the great mass of it is continental in origin. It's true known that the present structure came at the close of this Coal, and that during the Coal, Newfoundland