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ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. 



my face during my five days' stop at the fifteenth encampment. 

 I visited that phenomenon; I mounted it, and went around it 

 also. It is a mount of marine fossils in limestone, half a mile 

 long, and over a hundred feet high. It presents something of 

 this appearance, the long line of Kingaite mountains behind 

 stretching away to the Gateway northwest. 



SILLIMAN'S FOSSIL MOUNT. 



* * * "The debris of the fossils begins at or near the 

 top of the mount, falling at such an angle as broken stone from a 

 mountain always makes — an inclination of about 40°. Above the 

 talus, or heap of broken stones, is a mass of fossils in limestone, 

 strata-like. A smaller mount* of the same character is close by, 

 but all in debris. It seems to have been divided from the main by 

 the rushing down of waters from the mountains behind. A small 

 stream comes down the mountains, passes along, and finally makes 

 its way out between the two fossil mounts. This is also indica- 

 ted in the course of this stream, as an acre or more of the plain 



* The small mount referred to is not represented in the illustration, but is to the 

 right, or northwest of the main one. 



