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I found, on examining a series of specimens, to contain various 

 tropical looking fossil plants, resembling those met with in the 

 coal-fields in this country; and, as the same formation occurs 

 in the high latitude of Jamesons Land, it is very probable, that 

 future naturalists will detect in its strata fossil remains of plants 

 of a similar nature. Remains of plants with tropical characters, 

 in their native place of growth, under the 70th degree of North 

 latitude, is a fact which leads to very extensive and remarkably 

 curious discussions, in regard to the former state of the cli- 

 mate of the northern regions of the globe, but which cannot 

 be considered here. 



From the apparent great extent of the coal formation in 

 Jamesons Land, it is higly probable that it abounds in beds of 

 coal, and if this shall prove to be the case, it may, at some 

 period, become useful to man. 



In Greenland, as in Scotland, the coal formation is traversed 

 by veins (dikes) of greenstone, — another fact, illustrative of 

 the similarity of this formation in both countries.» 



Hoff gjør i 1863 (I.e.) opmærksom paa. at Jameson ikke 

 anfører tilstrækkeligt gyldige Grunde for, at de af Scoresby paa 

 Jamesons Land fundne Kul høre til Stenkulformationen; «langt 

 rimeligere er det, at det er den samme Kulformation, som fore- 

 kommer i Vestgrønland». 



Heer (1868, I.e. p. 13) udtaler sig paa følgende Maade 

 om de østgrønlandske Kul: «Es reicht wahrscheinlich die mio- 

 cène Formation bis an die Ostseite von Grönland hinüber. 

 Dort hat nämlich Scoresby am Cap Brewster (am Scoresby 

 Sund) bei 70°n.Br. 1 ), also genau der Hauptfundstätte fossiler 



.lames on sagt, die Kohle des Jamesonlaiides sei verschieden von der 

 Braunkohle des Cap Brewster; aber auch die miocenen Kohlen des 

 Westküsten sind, wie wir gesehen haben, unter sich in ihrem Aussehen 

 sehr verschieden. Es hat Herr Prof. Scott die Freundlichkeit gehabt, 

 meinem Ansuchen zu entsprechen und in Edinburg nach den von 

 Scoresby mitgebrachten Kohlen und Petrefakten geforscht. Leider 

 scheinen dieselben verloren zu sein und dadurch die Mögligkeit der 



