1907] Fernald,— Soil Preferences of Alpine Plants 185 
12 ** A short distance south of the station, a vein, varying from 8 to 13 inches in width 
occurs in a ema Pt consists of light grey dolomite [calcium- ce ee carbo onate] 
and white quartz. ragments of grey, drab and yellowish limeston vith obscure 
— were gore ar baie the base of the hi Bell, 1. c. 18, 19 pac 
wson, quoting from a paper of Fielden and Rance, says: ‘A lime- 
pone formation, resembling that elsewhere so widely y Spread in the Arctic regions, * 
enn 
Channel and Smith’s Sound. Sereda limestones were recognized in seal 
places along the north coast of Gri . a gee pear to be a 
ste likelihood that the lim heer nues in a pisoionaang td direction by way of 
these mountains [the United re ran across the w ray of Grinnell Land’,”’-— G, M. 
Dawson, Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv, Can ii. 51, 52 R (1887). 
4 As indicated fe Dawson little is ‘known a the rocks of Ellesmere Land. The ‘Cape 
wson Beds’ however 
15 The ern part “of Baffin Land, Bieseacerrgn< Frobisher Bay and Cumberland 
Sound t a meg ant Melville Peninsula, e particularly referred to as evidently 
exhibiting a considerable mighee races of idan Laurentian rocks [including crystal- 
ag limestones].”-— Dawson, 1. c. 
16“ Among the scabattiab gneiss boulders, scattered on the hills and plains, were 
found several of grey dolomite....A small piece of greyish crystalline limestone was 
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y boulders of grey and yellowish limestone on the beach. ...One of the veins 
of white quartz in this locality contains purplish Papi ...resembling some of 
Bell, 1. 2 
me nrenpe erbavsitds limestones of the Laurentian series,”— Be c. 22-27. 
e eastern part of Mansfield Island, about mid-way down, on the 
ae 30th of August. It € tline ted a remarkable contrast t 
a o 
the shores of Hudson’s Strait. It resembled a gigantic ne - gravel; but stratified 
t 
Tock gece 0 be a fossiliferous grey limestone, in rather thin horizontal a 
1B To the west and south it [shore at ae of James Bay] is almost flat, with its soil 
overlying nearly horizontal beds of Silurian and Devonian eaypegy for about one 
hun and fifty miles inland to the paver country.”’— Low, Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. 
(1888). 
oe ag Port es , oF was, a small outlier of 2 unaltered Cambro- 
Silurian limest .. With above are associated some fragments of white Silurian 
limestone are Siencat i pei fort at the mouth of the river, phn many botilders 
: i Trenton limestone.”— Tyrrell, Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Can., n. s. ix. 
(1897) 
“The surface of it rae Melville —s — agreed of sand. on which 
are veo gle na ‘ous Masses 0 one....We had passed, during our last march, a 
good deal of rich soil. ata the sorrel and ee pee oppositifolia) were 
More abundant than before. . _On the north side of this ravine large masses of sand- 
— were lying o cae surface of und,....and we remarked on this, and several 
occasions, that 
— like ig of fetid gsaueiranl when broken.”— Parry, First Voyage, Journal, 177, 
84-85 (1821), 
“At night we ours not far from the Old Fort [Good H _. The shale, ager 
Stone, and limestone beds, continue throughout the space interv betwee 
former and present sites of Fort Good Hope.’’— Richardson, Arct. farbice Exped. 
135 (1852), 
ty of the westernmost channel of the delta [of Slave River] and from 
mene is the efflux of the Mackenzie, the 
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