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can also be grey or greenish, but never red. These rocks 

 belong partly to the Rhaeto-Liassic, partly to more recent sub- 

 divisions of Jurassic, partly to the Tertiary. 



Strata belonging to the Jurassic system were first pointed 

 out from East-Greenland by the German North Pole Expedition, 

 viz., from Kuhn I., situated somewhat N. of Sabine I., and thus 

 rather far from the districts where the Amdrup-Hartz Ex- 

 pedition had its proper field of work. The rock here consists 

 partly of brownish sandstone with small coal-seams belonging 

 to the Dogger, partly of light sandstone and marls of the most 

 recent Jurassic, the Aucella-beds. The petrifactions dis- 

 covered have since been described by Toula. 



From the material collected during the Danish Expedition 

 of 1891 — 1892 by Hartz and Bay, it was also shown that the 

 rocks, that build up the SE. part of Jameson's Land, and in 

 a steep escarpment (the so-called Neill's cliffs) form the shore 

 of Hurry Inlet, belong to the Rhaetic and Jurassic systems. 

 At C. Stewart, where the oldest strata are visible, there lies at 

 the very bottom a mighty series of grey, sandy clay-slate with 

 numerous, well-preserved fossil plants, deriving from the Rhaeto- 

 Liassic. Above this lies light sandstone in which was found 

 an intervening layer, about 2 metres thick, of very impure 

 greyish limestone, rich in not particularly well preserved petri- 

 factions, classed by Lundgren with the older strata from 

 Kuhn I. (Kelloway). Then follow schists and light sandstones 

 with banks of basalt. About the strata further north. Nat- 

 horst has communicated a number of notes; he also found 

 new fossiliferous horizons. 



I made no collections or examinations myself of the sea- 

 cliffs at Hurry Inlet ^). However, I succeeded in making some 

 interesting contributions to our knowledge of the Jurassic beds 

 of Greenland, during my excursion to the inner and northern 



^) Hartz, who carried out the work here, has published a few notes of 

 his observations in Madsen's work, quoted below. 



