JAaiESON’s LAND : —NEILL’s CLIFFS. 203 
ing at this time, was the remarkable freedom of 
the southern part from the least vestige of snow. 
I landed near Cape Stewart, in the morning of 
the 26th, on a low sandy beach, about a mile from 
a range of cliffs, that were named after Mr Pa¬ 
trick Neill, Secretary to the Wernerian and 
Horticultural Societies, where there was a shore 
of low, level land, about 200 yards in breadth, 
on which we discovered a great many huts, and 
other proofs of the place having once been in¬ 
habited. This was by far the most interesting 
spot I visited, both as regards its mineralogical, 
botanical and other natural products, and its Es¬ 
quimaux remains. Immediately to the southward 
of Neill’s Cliffs, a vein or dike of greenstone (whin- 
stone) occurs, consisting of erect prismatic co¬ 
lumns, 60 or 100 feet in height, and from 1 to 
3 feet in diameter. The columns are not, how¬ 
ever, very regular, nor are they divided into 
joints, in the manner of some of the trap-rocks. 
They were found to consist of a fineish granular 
greenstone, not unlike that of the Shiant Islands, 
to which the columns bear a close resemblance. 
Proceeding from thence towards the north, along 
a fine smooth beach of white quartzose sand, we 
came to a river of some consequence for such a 
country, the bed of which being filled with large 
stones, and these concealed by the tumbling 
