554 



FARTHEST NORTH 



here in Franz Josef Land. Tliat whicli we found farther 

 nortli — for example, at Cape M'CHntock and on Goose 

 Island — was considerably more coarse-ofrained than that 

 which we found here. The situation of the basalt here 

 on Northbrook Lsland and the surrounding islands was 



BASALTIC ROCK 



also very different from that which we had observed far- 

 ther north. It is here met w^ith, as a rule, only at a 

 height of 500 or 600 feet above the sea, wdiile on the 

 more northerly islands — from Si northward — it reached 

 right to the shore. Thus it dropped in an almost per- 

 pendicular wall straight into the sea at Jackson's Cape 



