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«Jameson's Land, it has been observed, is of a totally dif- 

 ferent appearance and character, from any other polar lands 

 that I have seen. At a distance, it appears low, and undulating, 

 and of a light-brown colour: while ail the surrounding coasts, 

 with the exception of Perspective Ridge, are rugged, moun- 

 tainous , and of a blackish-brown colour. And what rendered 

 it still more striking at this time, was the remarkable freedom 

 of the southern part from the least vestige of snow». 



Scoresby's description of the Jurassic deposits which occur 

 in Neill's Cliffs near Cape Stewart, is in all essentials correct: 

 «iNeill's Cliffs were found to be about 300 feet in height, full 

 two — thirds of which were concealed by the debris of the 

 higher strata: on this 1 ascended to the rock in situ; and 

 found it to consist of a thick bed of bituminous slate, — coarse 

 conglomerate, with a base of sandstone, — sandstone flag, or 

 slaty sandstone, — calcareous sandstone, — fine granular lime- 

 stone, full of organic remains, — and a coarse grained lime- 

 stone of a grey colour, containing numerous large specimens 

 of pectinites and other bivalve shells. These were the prin- 

 cipal rocks ; but scattered specimens were also found of clay 

 ironstone, slate-clay, common slate-coal, jet, splintery lime- 

 stone, arenaceous limestone, &c. Most of these rocks were of 

 a friable texture, and the general colour was light-brown. This 

 tint gives the peculiar appearance to the cliffs of Jameson's 

 Land which first excited my attention». 



ScoRESBY (1. с p. 207) and Jameson (1. с p. 402 and 408) referred 

 these deposits to the Carboniferous system. Later it was 

 proved that the lower bituminous slate belongs to the Rhaetic, 

 and the overlying beds to the Jurassic. 



Many years later, the German North Polar Expedition of 

 1869 — 70 ^), discovered Jurassic beds somewhat further north, on 



Die zweite deutsche Nordpolarfahrt in den Jahren 1869 und 1870 unter 

 Führung des Kapitän Karl Koldeweg. Herausgegeben von dem Ver- 



