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and that there is in these northern Coal-fields no sub-division 

 into " red sandstone," " limestone," and " coal-measures," such as 

 prevail in the West of Europe. 



If the different points where coal was found be laid down on 

 a map, we have in order, proceeding from the S.W., Cape 

 Hamilton, Baring or Banks' Island ; Cape Dundas, Melville 

 Island, south ; Bridport Inlet and Skene Bay, Melville Island ; 

 Schomberg Point, Graham-Moore Bay, Bathurst Island ; a line 

 joining all these points is the outcrop of the coal-beds of the 

 south of Melville Island, and runs E.N.E. 



Vol. i., pp. 213, 214. — At Cape Lady-Franklin, and at many 

 other localities along the north shore of Bathurst Island, Car- 

 boniferous fossils in limestone, clay-iron-stone balls, passing into 

 brown haematite, cherty limestone, and earthy fossiliferous lime- 

 stone, with the same species of Atrypa as at Byam-Martin 

 Island, were found in abundance by Sherard Osborn, Esq., 

 Commander of H.M.S. " Pioneer." 



(4.) Vol. i., p. 223.— M'Clintock's " Reminiscences," &c. Third 

 Expedition. — On landing [at Point Wilkie], I found the beach 

 low, composed of mud with the foot-prints of animals frozen in 

 it. A few hundred yards from the beach there are steep hills, 

 about 150 feet in height, and upon the sides of these, in reddish 

 limestone casts of fossil Shells abound. Inland of these the 

 ordinary pale Carboniferous sandstone and cherty limestone re- 

 appeared. The fossils are all small, and of only a few varieties, 

 some being Ammonites, but the greater part Bivalves. They 

 differed from any I had met with before, and the rock was 

 almost brick-red. I picked up what apjjeared to be fossil bone 

 {Ichthyosaurus 'i), oiAy T^^vi oi it appearing out of the fragment 

 of the rock. Point Wilkie appears to be an isolated patch of 

 Liassic age, resting upon Carboniferous sandstones and lime- 

 stones, with bands of chert, of the same age as the limestones 

 and sandstones of Melville Island. The eastern shore of Intrepid 

 Inlet is composed of this formation ; while the western, rising 

 into hills and terraces, is of the underlying Carboniferous epoch. 

 At the western side of Intrepid Inlet I found upon the ice a 

 considerable quantity of white asbestos, but did not ascertain 

 whence it had been brought. 



Vol. i., p. 238.— M'Clintock's "Reminiscences," &c. Third 

 Expedition. '(Also M'Clintock's "Fate of Franklin," &c. ; 

 Haughton's Appendix. 1 859.) 



Wilkie Point, Prince-Patrick^s Land, Lat. 76° 20' N., Long. 

 117° 20' W. 



Lias Fossils. 



Ammonites Macclintocki, Haughton. J. R. D. S., i. t. 9, 

 f. 2-4. {See also Dr. Haughton's Manual Geol., 1865, 

 p. 141.) 



Monotis septentrionalis, Hgt. J. R. D. S., i. t. 9, f. 6, 7. 



Pleurotomaria, sp. J. R. D. S., i. t. 9, f. 8. 



Univalve, cast. J. R. D. S., i. t. 9, f. 5. 



Nucula, sp. 



