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2^ feet in circumference, in very good condition : the wood burnt 

 fiercely when it was chopped up, and a fire made of it. Stratified 

 rocks were observed on this beach at two localities. At the first 

 a hard calcareous sandstone permeated with veins of calcite, and 

 containing plants similar to those found at Cape Stephen, was seen ; 

 at the second a fine, laminated, bituminous paper-shale, which 

 burnt with a good flame, leaving a white ash. 



A third and more extensive exposure of stratified rock was 

 observed about 300 feet up the talus. About 100 feet of rock was 

 bare at the time of our visit, consisting of varicoloured sands and 

 soft shales, with a good seam of coal, at least 2 feet thick, at its 

 base. The dip of the strata was about 2° N.N.E. 



Cape Grants 



the southernmost point of Alexandra Land, is a fine extensive 

 headland (790 feet), consisting of six or seven basaltic terraces 

 with the ordinary talus below. Crossing the talus at a height of 

 about 120 feet is a well-marked ridge, due to a change in the 

 angle of slope. The surface of this ridge is strewn with the usual 

 angular blocks ; but beneath these I found numerous well-rounded 

 waterworn boulders and stones, thus proving that the feature in 

 question is a partially concealed raised beach. 



Cape Crowther 



is the next headland to the north-west, and is very similar to 

 many that have been previously described, but is more extensive, 

 and bisected by a small glacier | mile wide. Easalt was the only 

 rock seen : at one spot it descends to the sea-level. 



Cape Neale 



marks the south-eastern termination of Cambridge Bay. It is 

 formed of more or less columnar basalt, with talus and raised 

 beaches. The plateau at the top of the cliff's (700 feet) is extensive, 

 and on it were found the entire skeleton of a seal and numerous 

 bones of foxes. The surface consists of soil and mud, with fragments 

 of basalt, quartz, yellow and black flint, fossil wood, and a light- 

 coloured rock resembling siliceous sinter. The ice-cap from the 

 interior descends upon this plateau at a gentle angle of 4° or 5°. 

 An exposure of coarse yellowish sandstone occurs in a gorge cut 

 through the talus at a height somewhere between 200 and 300 feet. 



Capes Ludlow, Lofley, and Mary Harmsworth 



are all ice-promontories, the only exposed rocks lying back from 

 the ice-face, as on Bruce Island. But west of the last-mentioned 

 Cape there is a considerable area of bare ground made up of a 

 succession of beach-terraces. I counted as many as twelve, and 

 upon most of them driftwood, birch-bark, bones of whales, seals, 

 and bears, and big blocks of red and grey granite and gneiss were 



