August 29-1918. Thursday. Curling, Dear Tyrell and Denton with the boat off for North Arm. They got away at 11 A.M. Then cashed my check on the Montreal Bank for $700 and returned to the hotel. Packed boxes all afternoon, paid Thorne and Lilly and then had a hair cut. One of the finest days this year in eastern Newfoundland. A bit cloud in the sky and but a light wind. August 30-1918. Friday. Curling A dull morning with some rain. Packed the remaining boxes, one 16 in number; shipped them via the Reid Newfoundland and Railway in the afternoon. The mining engineer for the Reid N. C. is again back to Parsons Shutes. He tells me that at South Branch de has located a bed of coal 23 feet thick, 13 feet of which is good coal a semi-anthracite. He has traced it for 1000 feet along the strike. The bed is over a great northward fault, close by he has located other coal beds 4 and 6 feet thick. If these beds are actually in the Brinks or they are the thickest coals of this age in N. America. What is the thickness of the coals above the Calciferous in England?