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as it is composed of conspicuously stratified red rock (with little 

 doubt sandstone) banded with gray layers. As almost the 

 whole of the coast to the southward is composed of crystalline 

 rock, the introduction of the clastic series here commands an 

 interest it would not otherwise possess. Wolstenholme Island, 

 to the southeast, presents the same appearance as the "Crimson 

 Cliffs," which are gneissic. Distant views of the glaciers in and 



Fig. 4. Contrasted Topographies. No. 2. — Southeastern Carey Island. Situated in 

 the midst of the northern part of Baffin's Bay, thirty or forty miles from the Green- 

 land coast, W., N. W. from Dalrymple Rock, and formed of almost identical rock. 

 Illustration of rounded outlines. 



north of Wolstenholme Sound, and of the ice cap covering the 

 adjacent plateaus, were afforded. 



One of the missions of the expedition was to search for 

 further information respecting the missing Swedish naturalists, 

 Bjorling and Kallistenius, who were wrecked on the southeastern- 

 most of the Carey Islands, two years ago. The course of the 

 Falcon was therefore turned westward toward them. A landing 

 was effected during the afternoon, and the search continued 

 until midnight, with no better results than the mournful satisfac- 



