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the highest degree. It was especially desirable to collect materials 

 from the Cretaceous beds at Kome, and to obtain, if possible, plant- 

 fossils from the long periods intervening between the fern-forests of 

 the Cretaceous and the beech and plane woods of the Miocene 

 Epoch ; as well from the ages intervening between the last- 

 mentioned era and the present time. This was the object of Dr. 

 Nordstrom's and my tours during the remainder of the summer. 



Aug. 1. We departed in the Inspector's yacht, with our own 

 whale-boat in tow, from Sandbugten to Flakkerhook, where the 

 Inspector took leave of us, promising to meet us again at Atanekerd- 

 luk. We rowed, touching at a number of intermediate places to 

 collect plant-fossils, past Mudderbugten, round Isungoak, to Ujara- 

 susuk, whence I passed, in a boat obtained from the Danish officer, to 

 Eitenbenk coal-mine, north of Kudliset, and then crossed the 

 Waigat to Atanekerdluk. Dr. Nordstrom stopped a little longer to 

 collect more fossils at Ujaj-asusuk, and thence sailed in somewhat 

 rough weather direct to our appointed place of meeting. On this 

 now uninhabited spot we all met on the 5th of August. On the 9th 

 we rowed farther, to Mannik, Atane, Noursak, and Noursoak, where 

 we remained a couple of days (August 12 and 13). 



The time was employed partly ,by a visit to the coal-beds of 

 Netluarsak, situated high up in the basalt beds between the two 

 last-mentioned places. From Noursoak the Inspector continued his 

 journey to Upernivik, while we rowed along the shore of Omenak- 

 fjord, touching at Niakornet, Ekkorfat, Karsok and other places, to 

 Pattorfik. From Niakornet and Kar-sok two trips were made into 

 the interior, to coal-beds at Ifsorisok and to the famous graphite-bed 

 at Karsok. From Pattorfik we rowed over the fjord, though densely 

 packed with icebergs, to Omenak, where we arrived on the 20th of 

 August. Here we were detained by the ice a couple of days, during 

 which we were lodged in the most hospitable manner by the local 

 Colonial Governor, Mr. Boye. 



On the 22nd, in the afternoon, we rowed over to Assakak glacier, 

 and the following day onward to Kome, whence we went on board a 

 ship lying there belonging to the Greenland Trade, in which, in 

 the evening of the 24:th, we set sail for Godhavn, where we arrived 

 on the 30th, and whence some excursions were made to the spot 

 where the meteoric iron was discovered at Ovifak ; to Saitok, at the 

 mouth of the Disko fjord ; to Puilasok, and Sinnifik. Shortly after 

 our arrival at the last-mentioned place (Sept. 3), we received a 

 Kayak express from Godhavn with the news that war had broken out, 

 which induced us to hasten back to the colony in order to avail our- 

 selves of the first opportunity to return to Europe. As no vessel 

 was just then lying there, nor was any expected to arrive at 

 Godhavn for the next few days, I immediately passed over to 

 Egedesminde. Dr. Nordstrom remained at Godhavn, awaiting Drs. 

 Oberg and Berggren, to return home with them. At Egedesminde I 

 went on board the brig Thialfe, commanded by Captain Brockdorfi^. 

 Conlrary winds prevented our departure till the 23rd of September, 

 and the passage was slow in consequence of storm and unfavourable 



