388 APPENDIX. " No. IV. 



Whale Souud, West Greenland, lat. 77° N. The 

 other sandstone of Byam Martin's Island is fine, pale- 

 greenish, or rather greyish-yellow, and not distingxiish- 

 able in hand specimens from the sandstone of Cape 

 Hamilton, Baring Island. It contains numerous shells 

 and casts of a terebratuliform brachiopod, closely allied 

 to the Terebratula primipilaris of Von Buch, found 

 abundantly at Gerolstein in the Eifel. On the whole, 

 I incline to the opinion that the sandstones, limestone, 

 and coal of Byam Martin's Island, and the corresponding 

 rocks of Melville Island, Baring Island, and Bathurst 

 Island, are low down in the Carboniferous System, and 

 that there is in these northern coal-fields no subdivision 

 into red sandstone, limestone, and coal-measures, such 

 as prevail in the west of Europe. If the different 

 points where coal was found be laid down on a map, we 

 have in order, proceeding from the south-west — Cape 

 Hamilton, Baring Island ; Cape Dundas, Melville 

 Island, south ; Bridport Inlet and Skene Bay, Melville 

 Island ; Schomberg Point, Graham Moore Bay, Bathurst 

 Island ; a line joining all these points is the outcrop of 

 the coal-beds of the south of Melville Island, and runs 

 E.N.E. At all the localities above mentioned, and, 

 indeed, in every j^lace where coal was found, it was 

 accompanied by the greyish-yellow and yellow sandstone 

 already described, and by nodules of clay ironstone, 

 passing into brown hematite, sometimes nodular and 

 sometimes pisolitic in structure. 



No. XIV. GEAHAM MOOEE'S BAY, Bathurst Island (Lat. 75° 

 30' N.; Long. 102° W.). 

 Coal of the usual quality. 



At Cape Lady Franklin, and at many other localities 

 abng the north shore of Bathm-st Island, carboniferous 

 fossils in Limestone, clay ironstone balls passing into 

 brown hematite, cherty limestone, and earthy fossili- 

 ferous limestone, with the same species of Atrypa as at 



