NO. 2.] GEOLOGICAL SKETCH BY NANSEN. 13 



Information which Dr. Kcettlitz gives me in a letter, seems to confirm 

 this view. He says: 



„In one place, close to Leigh Smith's hut at Cape Flora i, I found a 

 small exposure running NW in the raised beach bank, and there I found 

 that the strata had a decidedly greater dip towards the NNW than toward 

 the NNE, I found it to be from 5° to 6° in the first direction — but this is 

 the only place where I found an opportunity to take the dip on that side." 

 li we assume a universal dip of these strata, of as much as 5° to the NNW, 

 this would carry a layer about 8 metres lower for every 100 metres towards 

 the NNW; and a layer which, in the bank south of Elmwood, is 15 m. above 

 the sea, would thus, only 400 metres farther to the NNW, be about 17 m. 

 below sea level. 



2. Medium horizon, 113 to 137 metres (370—450 feet) above the sea (and 

 probably about 37 metres (120 feet) below the base of the basalt(?)). 



Fig. 1, c; fig. 2, c. 

 One day in the beginning of July 1896, Dr. Koetthtz took some of his 

 comrades and myself to what he calls „a shoulder of rock", which projects 

 from the cliff at Windy Gully, and whose height I estimated to be 400 

 feet (122 m.) above the sea. According to later measurements by Kcettlitz, 

 it is from 370 to 450 feet (113—137 m.)^. This locality is situated at the 

 southern end of Windy Gully, on its western side, some two and a half 

 kilometres north-east of Elmwood. The fossils collected on that occasion 

 have been described by Newton and Teall^. 



On an excursion through Windy Gully July 14*^ 1896, I also came 

 to the same place, and found a few fossils which have been submitted to 

 Pompeckj (see his description). I find the following remark about the locality 

 in my diary for that day: „It is a ridge or shoulder of clay (or sandy clay), cut 

 through by a watercourse, and showing horizontal stratification. The height 

 is about 400 feet above sea-level. The surface of the ridge is strewn 

 with fragments of reddish brown „clay-sandstone" *. Found a good ammonite 

 and some other doubtful fossils". 



' This was some few hundred paces south-east of Elmwood. 



2 L. c. 1898, p. 638. 



3 L. c. 1897, p. 500. See also 1. c. 1898, pp. 649-650. 



* These stones, according to Pompeckj, are „harcl phosphoritic clay nodules, and yellow, 

 or gray and greenish, hard, calcareous, sandy stone marl" (see chap II). 



