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GREENLAND VOYAGE. 
stream, rendered the fording of it a little difficult. 
We landed at the foot of Neill’s Cliffs, on a 
slightly elevated flat of ground, forming a tract 
about 300 yards in breadth, between the beach 
and the cliffs, and abounding in vegetable pro¬ 
ductions of a very grateful fragrance, and in in¬ 
teresting Esquimaux remains. Neill’s Cliffs were 
found to be about 300 feet in height, full two- 
tliirds of which were concealed by the debris of 
the higher strata: on this I ascended to the rock 
in situ; and found it to consist of a thick bed 
of bituminous slate,—coarse conglomerate, with 
a base of sandstone,—sandstone flag, or slaty 
sandstone,—calcareous sandstone,—fine granu¬ 
lar limestone, full of organic remains,—and a 
coarse grained limestone of a grey colour, contain¬ 
ing numerous large specimens of pectenites and 
other bivalve shells. 
These were the principal rocks; but scattered 
specimens were also found of clay ironstone, slate- 
clay, common slate-coal, jet, splintery limestone, 
arenaceous limestone, &c. 
Most of these rocks were of a friable texture, 
and the general colour was light-brown. This tint 
gives the peculiar appearance to the cliffs of Ja¬ 
meson’s Land which first excited my attention. 
The rocks I had previously met with were, al¬ 
most without an exception, primitive; and the 
