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3. Atane ; 4. Kordlutok ; 5. NuUuk Cape ; 6. Ekkorgvoet ; 7. 

 Mibersteen Fjeld ; 8. Pattorfik ; 9. Sarfavfik ; 10. Kome ; 11. Uper- 

 iiavik Cape; 12. Innerit Fjord ; 13. Hare Island ; 14. Ritenbenk 

 Coal-mine (various places on the Disco shore of the Waigat) ; 

 15. Skandsen ; 16. Makkak ; 17. Igligtsiak. 



The first five localities named are on the Noursoak shore of the 

 Waigat ; the next five are on the Noursoak shore of Omenak Fjord, 

 and most likely belong to the Cretaceous formation, certainly not 

 altogether to the Miocene ; the twelfth locality is on Svarte Huk 

 Peninsula, in Upernavik district ; while the three last-named 

 places are on the southern shore of Disco Island — Igligtsiak being 

 only 16 English miles from the Settlement of Godhavn, to which 

 the natives sometimes bring the coal on their sledges in winter. 



Note. — The maps accompanying Prof. Nordenskiold and Dr. 

 Brown's memoirs comprise that portion of the West Coast of 

 Greenland lying between the 69° and 71° parallels of North latitude. 



The very indented coast-line of the country, intersected by 

 numerous fjords bearing many islands, bends outwards in a 

 north-westerly direction to form the Peninsula of Noursoak at 

 about 70° N. lat. Between it and the adjacent mainland to the 

 south lies the Bay of Disco, so called from the large Island of Disco, 

 which lies due south of Noursoak.. from which it is separated by the 

 Waigat Strait. 



The mainland, as well as a small portion of the eastern end of 

 the Noursoak Peninsula, and the southern extremity of Disco (at 

 Godhavn) is mainly composed of gneiss or granitic rocks ; but the 

 peninsula itself, as well as the Disco Island, consists chiefly of 

 Miocene or of Cretaceous formations underlying Traprock. 



In the Island of Disco the Miocene beds are represented as 

 extending from the gneissic promontory of Godhavn on the south, 

 round the eastern side to nearly the northern point ; and on this 

 coast, proceeding in the above direction, Puilasok, Sinnifik, Skandsen, 

 Isungoak, Ujarasusuk, Igdlokungoak, and Kudliscet are known as 

 localities whence fossil plants can be obtained. 



In the Noursoak Peninsula the Miocene beds lie on its southern 

 coast from Sakkak, past Atanekerdluk, to beyond Mannik, where 

 plant-fossils have been found ; and at Atanekerdluk, the position 

 of which is marked by a definite promontory, is the Ekadluk 

 ravine from which Dr. Brown's principal section is taken. 

 Netluarsuk and Ifsorisok, near the northern point of Noursoak, 

 are also fossiliferous. 



The Cretaceous strata appear below tlie trap along the northern 

 coast of Noursoak, extending from Ekkorfat past Angiarsuit 

 Avkrusak, Pattorfik, Kome, and Assakak, to nearly the neck of the 

 peninsula, where the overlying trap appears to unite with the 

 gneiss of the mainland. All the places above mentioned are rich 

 in fossils. 



Cretaceous fossils have also been obtained from below the Ter- 

 tiary strata at Atane, on the Waigat, and in the lower part of the 

 section at Atanekerdluk. 



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