ess, and when chewed for a little time, a somewhat
unctuous but not unpleasant taste. When dried in the air it acquires the
hardness of chalk, adheres to the tongue, and has the appearance of the
whiter kinds of English pipe-clay, but is more meagre.

Section IV.

A little above the preceding:--

A precipitous bank of gravel 12 feet
Lignite and clay, the beds concealed by debris 40
Friable sandstone 30
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Height of the cliff 82

Section V.

Ten miles above Bear Lake River, at the junction of a small torrent
with the Mackenzie, there is a cliff about forty feet high, in which
the strata have a dip of sixty degrees to the southward.

98 Bed, No. 1 Porcelain clay 2 yards
2 Potter's clay slightly bituminous
99 3 Thin-slaty lignite, with two seams of 2-1/2
100, 101 clay-iron stone, an inch thick
4 Pipe clay, (nine inches) 1/4
104 5 Porcelain clay 3
105 6 Bituminous clay 3
106 7 Lignite, with a conchoidal fracture 2
8 Pipe clay 1/4
107 9 Porcelain clay 3
10 Bituminous clay 3
110 11 Lignite, earthy paste, enclosing 2
fibrous fragments
12 Porcelain earth }
13 Bituminous clay } 9
14 Porcelain earth }
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31 yards.

The three last beds it is probable, once inclosed seams of coal which
have been consumed, but the quantity of debris prevented this from being
ascertained satisfactorily during the hurried visit I paid to them.

[Sidenote: 108] Over these inclined beds there is a shelving and
crumbling cliff of sand and clay covered by a sloping bank of vegetable
earth. A layer of peat at the summit has a thin slaty structure, and
presents altogether, exc