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microgranitic , now a splendid granophyre. We also find 

 balls whose ground-mass seems to consist of individualized 

 cryptopegmatitic intergrowths, and the small grains show 

 great variety, but it was impossible for me to set up any well 

 defined types. It is true that I found no analogy to the basic 

 tephritic forms of the Cape Fletcher series, but these even 

 there occur in subordinate mass, and on the whole the resem- 

 blance to the rocks of the area mentioned, distant only about 

 12 miles, is too great for us not to be able to assume with 

 certainty that the balls derive from that group of eruptive rocks. 

 To this question 1 will return when describing the conglomerates 

 in Hurry Inlet. 



To settle the very interesting question of the age of this 

 series of rocks in relation to the Triassic bed further in in the 

 {jord, it would be necessary not only to be acquainted with the 

 nature of the superposed bed but also to examine the E. coast 

 of the Qord. Koch stayed some time at this place and climbed 

 the highest mountain, from the top of which (850—900 m. 

 above the sea) he brought back, it is true, some red lustrous 

 schists of the same kind as those from the shore. But as 

 similar schists, even if subordinate, are also met with in the 

 Upper Triassic series it is by no means precluded that the 

 conglomerate cropping out on the shore can be at the base 

 of this formation and itself belong to the same epoch. This 

 is also the opinion to which I most incline, but until a de- 

 tailed examination has been undertaken the possibility is always 

 present that we have to deal with an older, Paleozoic series, 

 which by dislocation is separated from the more recent beds. 



The oldest Hurry Inlet series. Nathorst, on his 

 visit, already came across, in the innermost part of Hurry 

 Inlet, at the foot of the archaean hills of Liverpool Land, 

 firstly a coarse gneiss conglomerate, and secondly, nearer the 

 shore, a black or grey clay-slate. However, he had no chance 

 of determining their relations either to one another or to the 



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