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No. 37. 

 Sediments 1 (loose, grey sandstone) 

 Basalt 13 (black or greyish, sometimes altered). 



No. 40. 

 Basalt 17 (for the most part of a porous, or somewhat 

 loose consistency, greyish or brownish). 



No. 41. 



Granite-Gneiss 2. 



Sediments 18 (8 black, or greyish-black, hard, and 10 loose, 

 greyish, much altered). 



No. 42. 



Granite-Gneiss 1. 



Sediments 3 (grey sandstone slate 1, grey slate 1, grey 

 phyilite). 



Basalt 5 (black, often rather loose). 



The rocks found in the samples correspond on the whole 

 rather closely with the sohd ones of the land near the sea, 

 and we may suppose that only a very small part of them at 

 most can have been derived from more distant parts, though 

 it cannot be proved that such rocks are quite excluded. The 

 geological conditions of this part of East-Greenland are very 

 various, and not a single fragment is found in the sample, 

 which may not have originated from known formations. 



If we consider the nature of the fragments, the ratio 

 between the individual rocks of the samples will generally be 

 somewhat remarkable. The archæan rocks are generally 

 present in comparatively small quantities, except in the samples 

 which were obtained in the immediate neighbourhood of the 

 Liverpool Ryst, these occupying, however, the largest areas 

 within the younger formations. This fact shows plainly enough 

 that the glacier-ice cannot play a very great part in the transport 

 of the fragments, for by far the greater part of the glaciers 



