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steeper angles in an opposite direction to the rocks of the middle division, and 

 are more indurated and show evidence of greater alteration than any of the 

 series overlying them. 



New Fortune Bay. 



The harbour of New Fortune Bay is mainly cut out of the rocks of the middle 

 division, but on the high ground above it to the south-west the lower division appears 

 on the surface, and is well developed in the glen leading down to Cumberland Bay, 

 opposite the Nordenskjold Glacier. 



In this glen are some black shales seamed with secondary quartz along their 

 cleavage planes, similar to the larger exposures at Royal Bay. The black shales 

 belong to the lower division. The quartz is of a granular sugary character or 

 texture, not unlike some of the gold-bearing varieties in Rhodesia and Southern India. 



On the outer coast there are some small exposures of the creamy-white rocks, 

 which may be a fringe of the upper division, coming on above the rusty-brown rocks 

 of the middle division. 



Royal Bay. 



The rocks of the coast and around the inner rim of Royal Bay are confined to the 

 middle and lower divisions. The middle division occupies all the high ground from 

 Cape Charlotte round to the Great Glacier, and the highest points above Moltke 

 Harbour. The lower division fringes the sea-level, and forms the low escarpments 

 from Cape Charlotte to the Great Glacier. It rises up into hills at least 1200 feet 

 above sea-level, on the north-west and south-east side of Moltke Harbour, and the 

 north-west side of Royal Bay. It also runs some miles north-west along the 

 Atlantic coast. 



The streams from the ice-fields running down the old glacier courses to the north- 

 west of the upper end of Moltke Harbour have cut through the rocks of the lower 

 division, while the middle division occupies the higher ground. South-west of the 

 Great Glacier there is a huge ice-field, through which only the higher grounds of the 

 central or Allardyce range are seen, and these are all of the middle division rocks. 



There is some folding in the rocks on the south-east side of Royal Bay near the 

 coast. Round Moltke Harbour, up the glacier glens to the north-west of it, and 

 along the north-west side of Royal Bay, occupied largely by rocks of the lower 

 division, there is very little folding. The rocks are lying at slight angles of dip 

 along the north-west side of Moltke Harbour and Royal Bay ; frequently they are 

 horizontal. 



The lower divisions are formed of dark shales, dark and grey-banded arenaceous 

 shales, gritty arenaceous shales and greywackes. There are thick bodies of dark 

 shales, and these, with the dark and grey-banded arenaceous shales, are probably 

 the largest portion of the lower division. The Cape George Series is not seen around 



