PROFESSOR HERE ON THE EOSSIL ELOEA OE NORTH GREENLAND. 455 
Herr C. S. M. Olrik, the Director of the Greenland Trade. Scarcely less are our 
thanks due to Herr K. Smith, the present Inspector of North Greenland, and to Herr 
Anderson, of Bitenbenk ; both of these gentlemen gave much assistance at considerable 
personal trouble, which was of the greatest service.” 
Mr. Brown says, “ Kudliset. This locality is backed by great cliffs of basalt giving 
the place its name. Walking south along the beach the following section is exposed, 
from top to bottom : — 
“ 1. 20 feet alluvium of earth, debris of rocks from cliffs behind. 
“2. 5 feet coarse gritty brown sandstone. 
“3. 1^ foot hard grey sandstone. 
“ 4. 1 foot hard sandy shales with the faint vegetable impressions, &c. 
“ 5. 14 inches of coal exposed by the men attempting to work it at the place where a 
stream breaks through the strata. The coal is of the same nature as the others. 
“ 6. 2 to 3 feet of shales. 
“ 7. 3 feet hard sandstone. 
“ 8. 2 feet shales, sandstones &c. in irregularly laminated seam. 
“ 9. 1 foot hard sandstone. 
“ 10. 2 feet shales. 
“ 11. Hard grey sandstone with pieces of coal contained in its mass. Of this 14 feet 
were exposed at the level of the beach. 
“ The dip of these strata is north 45°, strike easterly (across the Waigat). Scattered 
along the beach are great blocks of conglomerate of primary rocks which have rolled from 
the mountains. 
“ (a) Fossil stem locality. — North of the last-named place a stream flows in. This 
stream flows in a general course, easterly from the mountains or the interior of the 
island (which seems only to be a small edition of the mainland in its physical features). 
Many of the stems were lying in the stream in fragments, but the dicotyledonous cha- 
racter of them was quite apparent. The bark, knots &c. were quite characteristic — the 
outside brownish or whitish, the interior of a blackish character. They might be passed 
over by any one not acquainted with the appearance of fossil stones as mere blocks of 
stone. A perpendicular section facing the stream where these stones had rolled down 
(as it afterwards appeared out of the level) showed from the level of the creeks the 
following : — 
“ 1. (Bottom) 4 feet splintery shales. 
“2. 1 foot hard gritty sandstone. 
“ 3. 4 feet mixed shales and sandstone. 
o jj f “ 4. 1 foot coal. 
v‘ 5- li - foot shale, with faint impressions of leaves, stems &c. ( at antea). 
| « * (“ 6. 2\ feet coal. 
“ In this coal are the stems referred to previously. They lie apparently horizontally 
N. and S., and the transverse section of them is exhibited in the cliff. The direction of 
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