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66 Cole River - Bay of Islands.
Frocks are exceedingly scarce, the whole is a shallow water deposit outcrop we see no ripples nor sea-creeing.
Just north of the river mouth igneous man and chalus of the navigated seem cut again fresh. There at least not 700 yrs then another pillow lava effusive appears, there leaves them intact for % mile with just limestone inclusion. Then all is distinct mod to and including Bear Head, Hawleys only cals or we trip but it is one distinct in serpentine.
Just to the north of Bear Head [in Bear Cove] there is an isolated reef sticking out of the sea and another smaller one near the land. The outer one was visited by Denton, he states there is about 100 feet of limestone conglomerate here, the parts of limestone up to 3 foot long are generally flat ones and subangular.
It in Hawleys and the Cow Head Conglomerate but one higher in the navigated series.
From Bear Head north for 2 to 3 miles the hard land between the distinct areas shows along the coast the navigated seem, there it is less marked and lies fairly evenly bedded dipping to the northeast at about 30 to 35 degrees.
We left Coral River at 2.45 P.M. and at 7 P.M. we are opposite Woody Island. We got to [illegible] Curling in Bay of Islands at 8.45 P.M. The distance run today was 35 miles, stopping at Tourist Hotel.
In going along through the islands of the bay and Hunter Arm one gets the impression that the exposed rocks are of the navigated series, but in the [illegible] there might be little the Table Head Series or even the upper Richmondian.