Saturday July 9. Birdy Cove etc. As one pans Coors of [illegible] one again sees an elevated delta deposit, It is about 70 feet above the present level of the Humber Bay. In fact at every gully mouth one sees these elevated flats. To me it is evident that the oceanic level has recently been depressed from 75 to 100 feet and the rivers have since cut through their deltas to the present oceanic level. Otherwise one sees no raised beaches nor incised sea cliffs within the Bay of Islands. As the wind was almost dead on coming down Humber Arm my tacks had little made and as there would be no advantage in going out into [the] Gulf because the wind would die down during the night Kennedy concluded to anchor for the night inside of Birdy Island in front of Humber Arm. We went ashore at Birdy Island at 3.30 P.M. and walked all along the eastern and northern side to the northwestern point that ends in three manner islands. The strata of Birdy Island are well exposed all along the shore and consist in the main of greenish grey and almost black shales that only occasionally have thin bands of sandstone or argillaceous limestone. In addition there is a thin zone of quartzite and a much thicker one of conglomerate almost made of of small (quartz) well rounded pebbles and much mica. The former is in thinner beds but the latter is very loosely bedded. In addition there is a brick red slate mud like the one seen east of Birdy Cove. These slats are closely associated with.