120 area underlain by the lower Jurassic Maude formation, and the so-called coal in probably a carbonaceous shale band in these rocks which contain no coal. HONNA BASIN. Cowgiiz and Vicinity. The first discovery of coal in the Queen Charlotte islands was made by a Mr. Downie in 1859, at Cowgitz near the head- waters of Hooper creek,' and in 1865 a company was formed in Victoria, B.C., to exploit the deposit. At the request of those interested in the coal, James Richardson of the Geological Survey examined the property, and his account may be found in the Report of Progress of the Geological Survey for 1872-73. At the present time the workings are caved and obscured by under- growth, so that the following account is largely taken from Rich- ardson’s report. The measures containing the coal are nearly vertical, and the existence of faults is suspected. Three seams have been supposed to be present, and they are rather lenticular in char- acter. In one of the prospect tunnels the coal was found in contact with trap rock; and the seam which was called good anthracite, increased from 2 to 3 feet, where it was first struck, to over 6 feet and, to quote Richardson, ‘‘continued so for 60 or 70 feet. It then became mixed with black shale and ironstone for seventy or eighty feet, and in this portion the coal had to be separated by hand picking. The tunnel continued for about fifty feet farther, but I could not convince myself that any coal at all was present towards the extremity. This bed is called the ‘six feet seam.’’’ Apparently stratigraphically above this seam, and perhaps the same one repeated by faulting, are two seams as shown in the following section: Feet Inches Coal, good anthracite 6 Black argillaceous shale Coal, good anthracite called the ‘‘three feet seam”’ Black argillaceous shale, with nodules of clay ironstone. . Grey trap, or it may be altered sandstone 1 Dawson, G. M. Geol. Surv., Can., Rept. of Prog., 1878-79, p. 13B.