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PLATE XV. CAPE ADAEE. 



FIG. 1 (Map A). From a photograph by Mr FORD (Fo. 215, ^-plate), taking Cape 

 Adare from the N.-W., Jan. 9, 1902. 



FIG. 2 (Map A). From a photograph by E. W. SKELTON (Sk. 39, |-plate), taking 

 Cape Adare from the N., Jan. 9, 1902. 



"The peninsula of Cape Adare consists mainly of nearly horizontal sheets 

 of basaltic lava laid one above the other to form a flat-topped promontory, which 

 gradually increases in height from N.-W. to S.-E. Dykes occasionally cut across 

 these sheets. The successive sheets are thinner and more numerous at the 

 N.-W. extremity, but they become thicker, and are slightly inclined upwards 

 two miles or so towards the S.-E. 



"This approximately horizontal structure appears to be characteristic of the 

 steep coast-line between Cape Adare and Cape Jones, a distance of about one 

 hundred and fifty miles. This part of the coast is a cliff varying between 1000 

 and 2000 feet in height." 



See Ferrar, Nat. Hist. Rep., vol. i , p. 17. 



