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15. Bridport Inlet, Melville Island, Lat. 750° N., Long. 



110° 45' W. 



Coal with impressions of Sphenopteris. 

 Ferruginous-spotted white sandstone. 

 Clay-iron-stone, passing into brown haematite. 



16. Skene Bay, Melville Island, Lat. 75° N., Long. 108° W. 



Bituminous coal, laminated ; associated with brown crys- 

 talline limestone (with cherty beds), and grey-yellowish 

 sandstone, passing into brownish-red sandstone. 



17. Hooper Island, Liddon's Gulf, Melville Island, Lat. 



75° 5' N., Long. 112° W. 



Nodules of pure and heavy clay-iron-stone ; associated with 

 the usual ferruginous fine-grained sandstone and coal. 



18. Byam-Martin Island, Lat. 75° 10' N., Long. 104° 15' W. 



Yellowish-grey sandstone, in situ, containing a ribbed 

 Atrypa, allied to A. primipilaris, Von Buch, and A, 

 fall ax of the Carboniferous rocks of Ireland. 



Reddish limestone, with fragmentary AtrypcE, like the last. 



Coal, of the usual quality. 



Fine-grained red sandstone, passing into red slate [?]. 



Boulders of scoriaceous hornblendic trap. 



19. Graham-Moore's Bay, Bathurst Island, Lat. 75° 35' N., 

 Long. 102° W. 



Coal, of the usual quality. 



(3.) Vol. i., p. 211. — In M'Clintock's "Reminiscences," &c. 

 Second Expedition. — Coal, sandstone, clay-iron-stone, and brown 

 haematite were found along a line stretching E.N.E. from Baring 

 Island [Banks' Land], through the middle and S.-E. part of 

 Melville Island, Byam-Martin Island, ^nd the southern half of 

 Bathurst Island [towards Grinnell Land and the Victoria Archi- 

 pelago]. Carboniferous Limestone, with characteristic fossils, 

 was found along the north coast of Bathurst Island, and at 

 Hillock Point, Melville Island. 



Vol. i., p. 199. — The sandstone of Byam-Martin Island is of 

 two kinds, one red, finely stratified, passing into purple slate, and 

 very like the red sandstone of Cape Bunny, North Somerset, and 

 some varieties of the red sandstone and slate found between 

 Wolstenholme Sound and Whale Sound, West Greenland, 

 lat. 77° N. The other sandstone of Byam-Martin Island, is fine, 

 pale-greenish, or rather greyish-yellow, and not distinguishable 

 in Land-specimens, from the sandstone of Cape Hamilton, Baring 

 Island [Banks' Land]. It contains numerous shells and casts of 

 a Brachiopod, closely allied to Terebratula primipilaris, Von 

 Buch, found abundantly at Gerolstein in the Eifel. On the 

 whole, Dr. Haughton inclines to the opinion that the sandstones, 

 limestone, and coal of Byam-Martin Island, and the corresponding 

 rocks of Melville Island, Baring Island [Banks' Land], ami 

 Bathurst Island, are low down in the Carboniferous System ; 

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