80 ON THE TERTIARY FLORA OF THE ARCTIC REGION. 
presence of both plants in the locality of Northern Greenland I have 
named, and that of the trunks, justify us in concluding that at least 
the coal-beds (so much worked) belong to the Miocene formation. 
Whether the same may be said of the other sixteen which Mr. Rink, 
the present Governor of Greenland, mentions, I am not prepared to 
maintain. I received from that gentleman a rather dark mica-slate 
from another district, the coal formation at Kook (lat. 70° N.), con- 
taining Pecopteris borealis, A. Brongn., and curiously enough a very 
well preserved Zamites ; also a Pinus with fascicles of three leaves, and © 
a leaf much resembling those of Sequoia Langsdorfii, but being rather 
blunt, so that I am not quite decided in my opinion on this formation. — 
Another place touched at by Captain Ingelfield, at Four Island Point, 
also appears to contain Tertiary plants.* 
II. Not less extensive coal-beds, called Surturbrand, are met with 
in Iceland under similar conditions to those existing in North Green- — 
land, and already described by Olafsen.t According to his state- 
‘ment, they have in some places well preserved flexible leaves of Oaks, — 
Willows, Birch, Elms, Maple, and Conifere; and this statement is i 
he following :— 
n Ingelfield (H.M.S. Phenix) went to se 
n, betwe d 
a and Poi r ; 
the Admiralty, from which we cull the following :—‘ On a hill, 1084 feet above the 
sea, we found large remnants of fossil trees, although they were almost entirely en 
bedded in sphærosiderite. e specimens ere in vario 
on ner of the 
stood in an angle of forty-fi 
y-five ^ 
was situated presenting its front towards the south. This tree was a ut as thick as 
a man's body, and four feet of it were abov 
nan eground. m a detailed d B 
scription of the geological formation of this district, better suited for a scientifie : 
journal than an official letter, and will only add that traces of greenstone, sand- 
hi i from our anchorage, — 
stone, schist, and basalt were observed at a short distance 
at w 
: n fo E 
beds, which, as far as my observation went, extended for more than a mile along the ; 
coast. They are from three to six feet deep, and contain anthracite.” Captam age | 
d then goes on to say that he sent his boats on shore, and in four hours took W : 
fiel 
twelve tons of coal of good quality. 
+ ‘ Reise durch Island,’ p. 219. 1774. 
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and the continent of Amë- — 
