102 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCO\^RY 



1821. catc and well-defined form, enclosed in limestone, generally of the fetid kind. 

 In a small water-course I picked up some curious pieces of steatite, which 

 appeared to have come from a neighbouring hill, through the face of which 

 to the northward I observed a broad vein of a green sandstone running in 

 an oblique direction. I obtained some extremely interesting specimens at 

 this part, one of which from a block of granulated quartz contained a quan- 

 tity of thin laminae of graphite, of a very pure and brilliant colour, but which 

 Avith the slightest touch left a very dark mark. 



" Although the weather hud in general been fine during Captain Parry's 

 absence, yet we frequently found that during the night a thin sheet of ice 

 Avas formed in the small bays and other sheltered places." 



