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and low-water. Ordinary clean and well-worn small 

 beach-shingle, the smaller fragments being more or less 

 subangular, and the larger ones more or less rounded : 

 no fragments above three-quarters of an ounce in weight; 

 and the bulk 117 to the ounce. It is composed mostly 

 of compact black hornblende-slate (like that of No. 2), 

 compact grey sandstone, and some grey limestone and a 

 very little quartz. There are no shells nor scratched 

 pebbles. It is much like the shingle of parts of our 

 own coast. 



5. Gravel from Bell Sound, low-water anchorage. 

 Subangular small fragments of micaceous slates, with a 

 few flat angular fragments of limestone. Not one well- 

 rounded pebble ; few even of the fragments are much 

 worn. There are no shells. This looks much like the 

 small debris in an old slate- quarry. 



Note on the FOSSILS from SPITZBERGEN. 

 By J. W. SALTEE, Esq. F.G.S. 



The specimens of fossils brought by Mr. Lamont are 

 chiefly from three localities, viz. : 



1. Bell Sound (at 400 feet above the sea-level), 

 western side of the island ; 



2. Island in Bell Sound (at 200 feet above the sea, 

 and 350 yards from the shore) ; and 



3. Black Point, near the S.E. angle of Spitzbergen, 

 close to which are the Thousand Isles. 



From Bell Sound only a few species were collected ; 



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