II. Description of the localities. 



A. The localities of Holm's Land. 



These places are, firstly, the two profiles in the outer part of 

 Hekla Sound, at Depot 80°09', Koch's section and the Conglomerate 

 section; secondly, the Mallemukfjæld, and, finally, Eskimo Naze, 

 where, however, only boulders were collected, though these prove 

 to be very nearly related to the rocks from the Mallemukfjæld. 



In addition to the localities just mentioned, collections, both 

 from the solid rock and from boulders, were made from a place to 

 the west of Koch's section, about 7 km. west of Depot 80°09'. 

 Specimens from the solid rock have been obtained from two levels 

 — at 85 and at 155 metres above sea-level — consisting of sand- 

 stone and sandy shale. 



The rock specimens 'from 85 metres above the sea (N:o 188) 

 are a greyish, coarse-grained shaly sandstone, containing indistinct 

 plant-impressions. This sandstone contains a large amount of mica, 

 both muscovite and biotite, and fragments of only slightly decom- 

 posed felspar. The grains of quartz are fairly well rolled, and are 

 held together by a cement containing both silica and some clay- 

 substance. This sandstone seems to contain all the constituent 

 parts of a granite or a gneiss, and has, very probably, been depos- 

 ited in the immediate neighbourhood of a coast consisting of fairly 

 new cliffs of such rock. According to Dr. Wegener's statement in 

 the list of the collections, this sandstone lies beneath the principal 

 shales containing Lower Carboniferous flora. 



The other specimen obtained from the solid rock {N:o 171) was 

 got from a height of 155 metres above the sea. The rock in this 

 specimen is very nearly related to the foregoing and, like this, con- 

 tains indistinct plant impressions. The rock is a somewhat brown- 

 ish dark gray, thick-bedded, evenly deposited sandstone, containing 



