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Bathurst island (latitude 75 30' K, longitude 102 W.). 

 Bathurst island, Bedford bay (latitude 75 N., longitude 95 

 50' W.). (Vesicular scoriaceous trap rocks were found here by 

 M'Clintock, though no such rocks are mentioned elsewhere in 

 connection with the Carboniferous.) Cornwallis island, 

 McDougall bay. Silurian and Carboniferous fossils were found 

 together at the last mentioned place. '- 



Professor Haughton also notes that ' the sandstone of Byam- 

 Martin island is of two kinds one red, finely stratified, pass- 

 ing into purple slate, and very like the sandstone of Capo 

 Bunny, North Somerset, and some varieties of the red sandstone 

 and slate found between Wolstenholm sound and Whale sound, 

 West Greenland, latitude 77 !N". The other sandstone of 

 Byam-Martin island is a fine, pale-greenish, or rather grayish- 

 yellow, and not distinguishable in hand specimens from the 

 sandstone of Cape Hamilton, Baring island.' Parry also 

 describes Byam-Martin island as essentially composed of sand- 

 stone, with some granitic and feldspathic rocks, these last being 

 probably erratics. 



Respecting the coal seams which have been discovered in the 

 Arctic Archipelago, Professor Haughton further remarks : ' If 

 the different points where coal was found be laid down on a 

 map, we have, in order, proceeding from the southwest, Cape 

 Hamilton, Baring island ; Cape Dundas, Melville island, south ; 

 Bridgeport inlet and Skene bay, Melville island; Schomberg 

 point, Graham-Moore bay, Bathurst island; a line joining all 

 these points is the outcrop of the coal-beds of the south of Mel- 

 ville island, and runs E.N.E. At all the localities above 

 mentioned, and indeed in every place where coal is found, it 

 was accompanied by the grayish-yellow and yellow sandstone, 

 already described, and by nodules of clay-ironstone, passing into 

 brown hematite, sometimes nodular and sometimes pisolitic in 

 structure.' 



