22 POMPECKJ. JURASSIC FAUNA OF CAPE FLORA. [norw. POL. EXP. 



and exactly in the same position in which they were left by the shattering 

 of the shale by the frost. Immediately beside this layer of shale-fragments, 

 the vipper ends of well-developed, vertical basaltic columns, hexagonal or 

 quadrangular, were seen. The basalt under the shale seemed to be less 

 solid, more resembling tufa. In a protruding rock, a little farther down the 

 glacier, the basalt was of the same rotten structure. Well-developed vesicles 

 and amygdaloids, partly filled with minerals, were plentiful. Oblong vesicles, 

 filled with a white mineral (calcite?), were especially conspicuous; their 

 long axis lay in a south-south-westerly direction, as far as could be made 

 out in the fog, and without a compass. Nodules of shale were also found 

 enclosed in the basalt; they had evidently been altered by heat. 



„The other place where fragments with plant-impi'essions were found, 

 was close by the first-mentioned spot, on the same rock (a foot or two higher) ; 

 but it was of smaller extent and less significance, the fragments being few 

 and scattered". 



The whole gave us the impression that what we had found in these two 

 places were the last remains of a bed, which Koettlitz had come just in time 

 to secure. These parts of the shale had been lying in two depressions in the 

 basalt bed, and had thus escaped denudation a little longer than the rest; 

 but in the highest, and consequently most exposed place, the shale was now 

 nearly gone. 



I say in my diary that the altitude of the place was about 600 or 700 

 feet (180—210 m.) above sea-level. Unfortunately we never got an oppor- 

 tunity of making an exact measurement. I see that KoettUtz states the height 

 to be „some 750 feet" (1. c. p. 638). I do not know whether the exact 

 height was ever measured after I left Cape Flora, but if not, I still feel inclined 

 to believe that it was not so much, and that my estimation is nearer the truth; 

 and I should even say that it comes narer 600 feet than 700. But at the 

 same time, I believe the basalt goes much lower in this place, than near 

 Elmwood (cf. above p. 20). 



These plant-remains have been investigated by Prof. A. G. Nathorst, 

 who will describe them in the next paper in this series^. It will there be 



1 See also Nathorst's description in Nansen, „Fram over Polhavet", Kristiania, 1897, vol. 

 II, pp. 519-521 ; and „Farthest North", vol. II, pp. 4S4-4S7. 



