Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior . en trending approximately northeast and southwest and inclined at a highangle. Pieces of coal much intermixed with foreign substances, principally lime-stone, of greater or less size, were found along the course of the stream for a dis-tance of 4 miles. Highly crystalline limestone, white, streaked with gray, wasfound in the detritus. The dense growth of timber, thick masses of fallen anddecaying trees, covered with deep moss, thickets of the thorny shrub Panax horri-durn, and the general mountainous charac
Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior . en trending approximately northeast and southwest and inclined at a highangle. Pieces of coal much intermixed with foreign substances, principally lime-stone, of greater or less size, were found along the course of the stream for a dis-tance of 4 miles. Highly crystalline limestone, white, streaked with gray, wasfound in the detritus. The dense growth of timber, thick masses of fallen anddecaying trees, covered with deep moss, thickets of the thorny shrub Panax horri-durn, and the general mountainous character of this locality will render its futureexploration extremely difficult. The notes cited by Professor Davidson, except the sentence referringto later information, are by A. Blake, geologist to theCoastSurvey party which visited Alaska on the revenue cutter Lincoln in18(58. There would seem to be no doubt that Mr. Blake found coal, asstated; but his account of the topography leads to the impression that The mile used in this report is the nautical mite nf feet. 5.
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