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the fragments are an ounce in weight. The bulk consists of 

 pieces of about thirty to the ounce. No matrix of any sort. 

 No fragments of shells. This gravel has the appearance of 

 rock debris in situ. 



4. Gravel from Bell Sound, halfway between high 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 gray sandstone, and some gray 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. Suban- 

 gular small fragments of micaceous slates, with a few flat an- 

 gular 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. Salter, 

 Esq., F.G.S. 



The specimens of fossils brought by Mr. Lamont are chiefly 

 from three localities, viz. : 



It 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 ; and 

 these are the same as those from the small island in the same 

 Sound. One is a large Productus, which I can not identify 

 completely with any British species. It may be a large varie- 



