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susuk.* M. Olrik found fossil leaves in the sandstone here. It 

 was in a boulder in this locality that Dr. PfafF found a Sigillaria 

 and Pecopteris (?) of Carboniferous age | (see above, p. 470). 



3. Ounartok (JElitenhenk Coal-mine). — Here, nearly opposite to 

 Atanekerdluk, shales rest on trap (?) and are covered by white 

 sandstone ; this is apparently covered by coal (for along the beach 

 there was a face of 3 feet of lignitic coal exposed, though the floor 

 was of coal, and therefore the seam appeared to extend to a still 

 greater thickness), covered by IJ foot of shale, this by 10 feet of 

 coarse brownish grit, then 2 feet of hard brownish sandstone, 

 finally 4 feet hard grey sandstone, coloured in some places by 

 iron. The dip of these strata was about 33°, the strike easterly 

 (across the Waigat). Both the shaly sandstone and grit contained 

 innumerable impressions of stems, interlaced in every direction, 

 more particularly in the shales ; but there were no leaves, and 

 most of the stems in the shales appeared only like lines of charred 

 wood. Ounartok was probably once a native " house-place," and 

 much debris has been brought down by the mountain-stream close 

 by. In this debris, Gudeman and Pa via, two of the native boat- 

 men, found fair impressions of leaves, though not hitherto found 

 in the stratum itself here ; and Gudeman discovered the fruit of 

 the Magnolia {M. Inglejieldi, Hr.). Dr. Brown found that these 

 fossils had come from the little stratum of hard brown sandstone, 

 which, as well as the sandstone and shales already noted, had 

 yielded some fossil impressions. These comprehended dicoty- 

 ledonous leaves {Populus, probably P. Richardsoni, Hr.) and 

 fronds of Aspidium Meycri, Hr. and A. Heerii, Ett. ; but it was 

 was very difficult to obtain pieces of the rock on accoimt of the 

 superincumbent mass of strata. 



4. Kudlisaet. Lat. 70° 5' 3o" N.J — Here were green mossy 

 slopes, but the vegetation on the whole was on this side much 

 more backward than on the Noursoak shore (August). An 

 Arahis and Stellaria Edivardsii, R. Br., were frequent on the 

 dry places, but little of Hicrochloc borcalis, so abundant elsewhere. 

 The glaucous Willow {Salix glauca) was common, and Elymus 

 arenarius gave a link-like character to the sandy shore, while a 

 little marsh at the mouth of a little stream was thick with Equi- 

 setum arvense and E. vanegatum. 



* In Professor Heer's paper in the " Phil. Trans.," I.e., Ounartok is erro- 

 neously called by the two names ofUjararsuk and Ouiarasuksumitok, -while 

 that of Ounartok applied to the locality where the coal is at present mined is 

 never mentioned. 



f Here also were found the remains of Caulopteris punctata ; Cretaceous 

 according to Mr. Carruthers, F.R.S. See above, p. 388. — Editor. 



X In the map attached to Professor Nordenskj old's memoir, already quoted, 

 Kudlisaet (Kudliset) is apparently applied to a locality in lat. 70°, while the 

 locality of Kudlisaet is marked as Ritenbenk Coal-mine (" Ritenbenks 

 Kolbrott"). A locality still farther to the south, on a stream, is marked on 

 Nordenskjold's map as " Igdlokungoak." It is in about the latitude of 

 Ounartok ; but as I had no opportunity, adds Dr. Brown, of taking observa- 

 tions to determine the latitude (as apparently Professor Nordenskj old had not 

 either), I cannot be certain ; as we were very careful, however, in getting the 

 exact names from our native boatmen, all inhabitants of the immediate vicinity, 

 I cannot but consider that they are correctly given by us. 



