650 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. 



exploration of the Grand River of Labrador is well known. The 

 party was limited to seven, the six additional members being : 

 Professor William Libbey, Jr., of Princeton University, geogra- 

 pher ; Dr. Axel Ohlin, of Sweden, zoologist ; H. L. Bridgman, of 

 Brooklyn, historian ; Emil Diebitsch, of Port Royal, S. C, civil 

 engineer; Dr. H. Emerson Wetherell, of Philadelphia, surgeon; 

 and the writer. It was arranged that on reaching Inglefield 

 Gulf my work might be conducted independently of the rest of 

 the party, who proposed to make such examination of the coast 

 of Ellesmere Land and Jones Sound as the condition of the ice 

 would permit. 



The party assembled at Brooklyn on June 20th, and took 

 passage for St. Johns, Newfoundland, on the regular coasting 

 steamer, Portia, of the Red Cross line. A few hours' stop was 

 made at Halifax, which gave a little opportunity to see the 

 interesting drift at that point. St. Johns was reached on June 

 25th without noteworthy event, unless it be that an iceberg south 

 of Newfoundland, two at the entrance of St. Johns Harbor, and 

 three or four on the distant horizon, gave a feeble prophecy of 

 the ice conditions that were in store for us at the north. We 

 remained at St. Johns awaiting the fitting out of the Falcon, a 

 sealing steamer which had been chartered for the trip, until the 

 7th of July. The larger part of the interval was spent in the 

 study of such geological formations as were accessible, especially 

 glacial deposits. By the kindness of Dr. Taite I was able to see 

 the interesting formations between St. Johns and Petty Harbor. 

 Through the good offices of Mr. James P. Howley, government 

 geologist, and the signal generosity of the Messrs. Reid, builders 

 and operators of the Newfoundland Western & Northern Rail- 

 way, Dr. Ohlin, Dr. Wetherell, and myself were permitted to 

 spend four days in the interior, with all the facilities and com- 

 forts which a special train, under the personal direction of 

 Superintendent Reid, could give, and with the added felicity of 

 the lucid explanations of Mr. Howley, covering not only the 

 region immediately traversed, but very much beyond. The road 

 is in process of building for the government, and most of the 



