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middle ; 18. Layer of clayey siderite with fossils, 2 inches ; 19. 

 Sandstone, 1 foot ; 20. Shale, with fragments of coal, same as 6 ; 



21. Excessively splintery shales with very faint fossil impressions ; 



22. Thin seam, sandstone, with a broken seam of coal, 4 inches ; 



23. Splintery sideritic ahales with faint fossil impressions ; 24. 



1 foot : coarse-grained white sandstone, as before ; 25. Splintery 

 shale, as in 23 ; 26. Gritty sandstone, 14 inches ; 27. Splintery 

 shales, 18 inches (as in 23), with faint vegetable impressions ; 

 28. Gritty sandstone, with little specks of coal, and stained with 

 ij'on in patches ; 29. 3 feet : splintery shale, bluish-black and 

 reddish, with imperfect vegetable impressions; 30. A seam of 

 coal and shale, 1 inch ; 31. Gritty sandstone, stained, 4 feet; 32. 

 Brittle shales, vsdth faint impressions of leaves, &c. ; 3 '. 4 feet : 

 gritty sandstone, with several irregular thin layers (not exceeding 



2 inches) of shale as before ; 34. 2 feet : splintery shale with 

 faint vegetable impressions ; 35. White gritty sandstone, 8 inches ; 

 36. 1 foot : gritty sandstone ; 37. Thin shale ; 38. 2 feet ; gritty 

 sandstone ; and 39. Shales, about 3 inches. 



89. Various shales and sandstones ; possibly 100 feet ; dipping 

 33°, with E. strike ; obscured with debris, containing much of 

 the thin, hard, sbaly clay iron-stone, with leaf marks. 



90. Irregular beds of sandstone and shale again, consisting of — 

 1. Fine sandstone, 10 inches ; 2. Splintery shale, as before, 5 



feet ; 3. Shaly sandstone, 10 inches ; 4. Shale, 6 feet ; 5. Shaly 

 sandstone (as 3), 8 inches; 6. Splintery shale, 8 feet; 7. Shaly 

 sandstone (as 3), 10 inches ; 8. Splintery shales, 12 feet ; 9. Shaly 

 sandstone, with cherty iron-clay, shale, siderite (" Atanakerdluk- 

 stone " of the Greenland Danes), 12 feet ; 10. Splintery shale, 8 

 feet ; 11. Broken layer of sandstone shale (as 3), on the summit 

 of the hill. 



Beyond this, trap rocks predominate over the country ; dykes 

 of variously weathered configuration, such as Rink's Obelisk, 

 forming prominent objects. Travelled blocks of syenite and 

 greenstone lie about. 



In Prof. Heer's paper '< On the Miocene Flora" in the "Journal 

 of the Royal Dublin Society" (/. c), a sketch is given by Com- 

 mander Colomb, R.N., of certain fossil stems which he and Captain 

 (Admiral) Inglefield, R.N., saw in this locality at the time of their 

 visit ; but these could nowhere be seen. There had apparently 

 been a landslip, and they are doubtless buried under the debris.* 



Dr. Brown further examined another section of the same strata, 

 but ratlier lower down in the series, about 1,007 yards S.E. by S. 

 (Mag.), from House at Atanekerdluk, in the cliif facing the sea 

 (p. 32.) 



1. Brown sandstone, 2 feet, dip 33° (on the top) ; 2. Shale and 

 shaly coal, irregular, average 8 inches ; 3. Seam of coal, 2 inches; 

 4. Shale, 6 inches ; and 5. Whitish sandstone, stained with brown, 

 2 feet exposed. 



* Nordenskjold describes bituminised stems found in this locality by him 

 v/ith the roots so permeating the soil as to leave no doubt but that they grew 

 in situ. See above, p. 434. 



