CAPE VANCOUVER. 135 



Miocene at Oeningen and Hohe Blunen. Very similar species, if not mere varietal 

 forms, are credited by Lesquereux and Ward to the Laramie and Tertiary of 

 western America. The plants found with this species at English bay, Alaska, and 

 at Atanekerdluk, Greenland, are closely allied to those of the upper Laramie of 

 Canada, and I have been inclined to refer them to this age rather than to the 

 Miocene. 



' ' No. 2. Fragment of a leaf of considerable size, but too imperfect for determina- 

 tion. It may possibly have belonged to a species of Quercas or of a large Corylus, 

 like C. McQuarrii, but this is quite uncertain." 



According to the classification adopted by Dr Dall in his recent work, 

 the beds at cape Vancouver would appear to fall under the Kenai group 

 of the Miocene, though the locality is a new one.^ 



Upon the beach at cape Vancouver fragments of vesicular basalt are 

 abundant, and the distant outline of the cape led me to suppose that the 

 stratified rocks are capped by basaltic flows in the higher hills a short 

 distance inland from the extremity of the cape. 



A fairly distinct though rather narrow terrace of earthy materials was 

 observed along the north shore of the cape at a height of 80 to 100 feet 

 above the sea. 



Saint Matthew, Hall and Pinnacle Islands. 



Saint Matthew island, with Hall and Pinnacle islands near it, are 

 situated in the center of the northern part of Bering sea. They are so 

 remote from any other land that they appear never to have been reached 

 by the Eskimo, though polar bears are brought to them on the floe-ice of 

 winter and remain during the summer. Saint Matthew island itself is 

 long and narrow, extending in a northwest by southeast direction for 

 about thirty miles. Hall island, some five miles in greatest length, lies 

 near the northwest end of Saint Matthew, and Pinnacle island is situated 

 at a distance of six or seven miles to the south of the main islands. The 

 islands are very imperfectly delineated on the existing charts. 



Saint Matthew island may be described as consisting of the unsub- 

 merged portion of a range of bold rounded hills, some parts of which 

 probably reach an elevation of about 1,500 feet. It is in reality formed 

 of three isolated groups of hills of unequal size which may originally have 

 been separated by narrow straits, but are now united by tracts of low 

 gravelly land washed up by the action of the sea. These low lands in- 

 clude several lagoons, into which streams fall and from which the water 

 percolates through the gravel to the sea. Hall island is in every way 

 similar to Saint Matthew, but happens to be divided from it by a still 

 existing strait. 



* Op. cit., p. 234. 



