1907] Fernald,— Soil Preferences of Alpine Plants 185 
12 ** A short distance south of the station, a vein, varying from 8 to 13 inches in width, 
occurs in the gneiss... . It consists of light grey dolomite [calcium-magnesium carbonate] 
and white quartz....Fragments of grey, drab and yellowish limestone, with obscure 
fossils, were common around the base of the hill."— Bell, 1. c. 18, 19 (1884). 
13 Dr. G. M. Dawson, quoting from a paper of Fielden and De Rance, says: ''A lime- 
stone formation, resembling that elsewhere so widely spread in the Arctic regions, is 
described as characterizing considerable tracts on both the east and west sides of Kennedy 
Channel and Smith's Sound....Carboniferous limestones were recognized in several 
places along the north coast of Grinnell Land....'There would also appear to be a 
strong likelihood that the limestone continues in a southeasterly direction by way of 
these mountains [the United States range] across the whole of Grinnell Land '."— G. M. 
Dawson, Ann, Rep. Geol. Surv, Can., n. s., ii. 51, 52 R (1887). 
14 As indicated by Dawson little is known of the rocks of Ellesmere Land. The ‘‘Cape 
Rawson Beds" (containing limestones], however, are known there. 
15 “The southern part of Baffin Land, including Frobisher Bay and Cumberland 
Sound together with Melville Peninsula, may be particularly referred to as evidently 
exhibiting a considerable development of Middle Laurentian rocks [including crystal- 
line limestones]."— Dawson, 1. c. 7. 
16 “Among the prevailing gneiss boulders, scattered on the hills and plains, were 
found several of grey dolomite....A small piece of greyish crystalline limestone was 
picked up near Ashe's Inlet....Here [Eskimo Inlet, Prince of Wales Sound] I found a 
good many boulders of grey and yellowish limestone on the beach. ... One of the veins 
of white quartz in this locality contains purplish red calespar,....resembling some of 
the banded crystalline limestones of the Laurentian series."— Bell, 1. c. 22-27. 
17 “We arrived at the eastern part of Mansfield Island, about mid-way down, on the 
morning of the 30th of August. Its even outline presented a remarkable contrast to 
the shores of Hudson’s Strait. It resembled a gigantic ridge of gravel; but stratified 
rocks, in low horizontal ledges, appeared here and there, through the debris, at different 
levels....I landed at a point about the middle of the eastern shore of the island, and 
found the shore very flat, with shallow water for a considerable distance out. The 
rock proved to be a fossiliferous grey limestone, in rather thin horizontal beds."— 
Bell, 1. c. 38. 
18 * To the west and south it [shore at foot of James Bay] is almost flat, with its soil 
overlying nearly horizontal beds of Silurian and Devonian limestones for about one 
hundred and fifty miles inland to the Archaean country."— Low, Ann. Rep. Geol, Surv. 
Can., n. s. iii. 16 J (1888). 
19 “In a fissure [at Port Churchill]... .is, or was, a small outlier of an unaltered Cambro- 
Silurian limestone....With the above are associated some fragments of white Silurian 
limestone....In and around the old fort at the mouth of the river, are many boulders 
of heavier-bedded Trenton limestone."— Tyrrell, Ann, Rep. Geol. Surv. Can., n. s. ix. 
91 F (1897) 
20 “ The surface of it [Table-hill, Melville Island] consists generally of sand, on which 
are lying numerous masses of limestone....We had passed, during our last march, a 
good deal of rich soil....and the sorrel and saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia) were 
more abundant than before....On the north side of this ravine large masses of sand- 
stone were lying on the surface of the ground,....and we remarked on this, and several 
other occasions, that the stones which were bruised by the wheels emitted a strong 
odor, like that of fetid limestone when broken."— Parry, First Voyage, Journal, 177, 
184-85 (1821). 
?1 " At night we camped not far from the Old Fort [Good Hope]. The shale, sand- 
stone, and limestone beds, continue throughout the space intervening between the 
former and present sites of Fort Good Hope."— Richardson, Arct, Searching Exped., 
135 (1852). 
22 “In the vicinity of the westernmost channel of the delta [of Slave River] and from 
thence to the efflux of the Mackenzie, the whole southern shore of the lake is limestone " 
— Richardson, l. c. 97. 
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