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Further information cannot yet be given, but for the present 

 account this is sufficient, even if an examination of the material, 

 which is very desirable, should change our opinion in some 

 details. 



Broadly speaking, the strata here are fairly horizontal, and, 

 however variable their pétrographie character may be, there is 

 no reason to assume that a continuous series does not exist, 

 though from this it does not follow that dislocations cannot 

 occur further off in the same district. 



The rocks themselves have, in the main, a rather young 

 appearance. We find yellowish, grey, and more or less bright 

 red sandstones, red, green and black schists, and dense, hard, 

 grey and red, also dark, limestones. The latter are often de- 

 veloped as fine oolites and varieties appear that consist entirely 

 of balls, several centimetres in diameter and consisting of con- 

 centric layers. In a grey-green clay-slate 1 saw a ball of dark, 

 flint-like mass. In these respects the rock forcibly recalls the 

 one at Cape Fletcher. Among the schists the lustrous types, 

 so characteristic at Cape Brown, are as a rule wanting, yet at 

 times there occur both red and green, loose, very likely cal- 

 cereous, sandstone schists, which at the surface of the strata 

 are resplendent with mica-scales. 



It is unfortunately impossible for me to show any sections 

 of these rocks ^). The sequence of beds seems to be such 

 that at the shore, at least towards the bottom of the fjord, 

 bright red rocks predominate, while it seems as if the light, 

 coarse sandstone prevailed higher up. So, for instance, 1 found 

 on the W. shore at 180 m. a fine lustrous red schist, at 240 m. 

 partly a narrow intervening layer of a green thinly laminated 

 rock, partly loose, light sandstone, recalling the Jurassic series. 

 But above these, as can be seen in several places, red schists 

 again crop out, while, conversely, down by the shore at Cape 



') Partly because a number of notes made at the time were lost through 

 an accident. 



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