No. IV. APPENDIX. 385 



*No. III. BALLAST BEACH, Baring Island (Lat. 74° 30' N. ; Long 



121° W.). 



1. Wood fossilized by brown hematite ; structure quite distinct. 



2. Cone of the spruce fir, fossilized by brown hematite. 



No. IV. PEINCESS EOYAL ISLANDS, Prince of Wales' Strait, 

 Baring Island (Lat. 72° 45' N. ; Long. 117= 30' W.). 



1. Nodules of clay ironstone, converted partially into brown hematite. 



2. Native copper in large masses, procured from the Esquimaux in 



Prince of Wales' Strait. 



3. Brown hematite, pisolitic. 



4. Greyish-yellow sandstone, same as Cape Hamilton and Byam 



Martin's Island. 



5. Terebratula aspera (Schlotheim) . Journ. E. D. S., Vol. I. PI. XI. 



Fig. 4. 



This interesting bracliiopod was found in limestone 

 by Captain M'Clure, at the Princess Koyal Islands, in 

 the Prince of Wales' Strait, between Baring Island and 

 Prince Albert Land. I have no hesitation in pro- 

 nouncing it to be identical with Sclilotheim's fossil, 

 which is found in the greatest abundance at Gerolstein, 

 in the Eifel. Banks' Land, or Baring Island, is com- 

 posed of sandstone, similar to that at Byam Martin's 

 Island, and at the Bay of Mercy. This sandstone con- 

 tains beds of coal, apparently the continuation of the 

 well-known coal-beds of Melville Island. It is a re- 

 markable fact, that these carboniferous sandstones 

 underlie beds of undoubtedly the carboniferous lime- 

 stone type, and that at Byam Martin's Island, where 

 fossils are found in this sandstone, they are allied to 

 Atrypa fallax and other forms characteristic of the 

 lower sandstones of the carboniferous epoch. It is, 

 therefore, highly probable that the coal-beds of Melville 

 Island are very low down in the series, and do not 

 correspond in geological position with the coal-beds of 

 Europe, which rest on the summit of the carboniferous 

 beds. It is interesting to find at Princess Eoyal Island, 



* These specimens are "Drift," but are mentioned here, as they 

 were found on the carboniferous sandstone area. 



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