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their lithological resemblance and from the occurrence of traps 

 with both. The southern junction of these bedded rocks with 

 the granites and gneisses forming the Greenland coast to the 

 southward was not seen, but at Foulke fiord and at Cape Isabella 

 the northern contact is quite plain. In both places the bedded 

 series, for some considerable distance from the contact, has been 

 tilted and fractured, while near the contact the sandstones and 

 limestones appear to have been changed into quartzite and 

 crystalline limestones by the injection of great masses of 

 granite. This granite seen at Cape Sabine and Cape Herschel 

 is an ordinary Laurentian granite, and in no way resembles the 

 acidic rocks of Tertiary or Post-Tertiary age, which they should 

 do if the bedded series were of the age assigned to them by Dr. 

 Sutherland. The sandstones, limestones and their associated 

 traps bear a close resemblance to portions of the Huronian 

 series found on Hudson bay and in the interior of Labrador. 

 There is also a similarity between their contacts with the Lau- 

 rentian granite and some of the contacts found in those more 

 southern localities. No fossils have as yet been found in these 

 rocks, and until such are found it is thought best to remove this 

 series from the Tertiary and place it in the Huronian. 



On the past voyage the coast of Ellesmere island was lost 

 sight of about twenty miles south of Cape Isabella, and no land 

 was again seen on the west side of Baffin bay until Philpots 

 island, lying off the east end of North Devon, was reached, where 

 the ship passed sufficiently close to the small outlying islands to 

 show that they were composed of Laurentian gneisses and 

 granites. From thence similar rocks were seen forming the 

 southern shores of North Devon as far as the west side of 

 Croker bay, where they begin to sink slowly to the westward, 

 and are capped by a considerable thickness of flat-bedded 

 limestone, which rests unconformably upon the rounded surface 

 of the older rocks. The Laurentian rocks finally dip below the 

 sea a few miles to the westward of Cuming creek. 



