| 85 | Pipe-clay on a level with the water | 1 | foot |
| 86 | Lignite | 1 | |
| 90 | Potter's clay | 14 | feet |
| 87 | Pipe-clay | 1 | foot |
| 89 | Lignite | 1 | |
| 91 | Potter's clay | 10 | feet |
| Lignite | 1 | foot | |
| Sandstone | 8 | feet | |
| Lignite | 2½ | ||
| Potter's clay | 10 | ||
| 94 | Friable sandstone and clay | 20 | |
| Sandstone a little more durable | 12 | ||
| Sloping Summit | 40 | ||
| 121½ |
The pipe-clay, when taken newly from the bed, is soft and plastic, has little grittiness, 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 | ||
| 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 |
| 99 | 2 Potter's clay slightlybituminous | ||
| 100, 101 | 2½ | ||
| 3 Thin-slaty lignite, with two seams ofclay-iron stone, an inch thick | |||
| 104 | |||
| 105 | 4 Pipe clay, (nine inches) | ¼ | |
| 106 | 5 Porcelain clay | 3 | |
| 6 Bituminousclay | 3 | ||
| 107 | 7 Lignite, with a conchoidal fracture | 2 | |
| 8 Pipe clay | ¼ | ||
| 110 | 9 Porcelain clay | 3 | |
| 10 Bituminousclay | 3 | ||
| 11 Lignite, earthy paste, enclosing fibrous fragments | 2 | ||
| 12 Porcelain earth | 9 | ||
| 13 Bituminous clay | |||
| 14 Porcelain earth | |||
| 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.
108Over 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, except in colour and lustre, a striking resemblance to the shaly lignite, forming bed No. 3 in the preceding Section.