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seemed about 200 ft above the bay. 100 ft higher was a third tunnel of about the same size, partly timbered  with much percolating water. The coal in very numerous small seams varying from 1/4 inch to 2 inches with bands of carbonaceous shale intermixed the whole of too poor quality to be of any importance, so that this tunnel has not been worked of late. 
The spot where these openings have been made is more to the southward than the old diggings of 1864-72. 
Leave the bay about 11 A.M. and visit the volcanic neck at the NW head of Popoff Strait then run down to Red Cove and examine the rocks, then back to Sand Point where we tie up at the Wharf and