. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history ; and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. CONTENTS. 15 Dangers—Capital invested in the Trade; Its Produce; Ports whence it is carried on—^Disasters and Shipwrecks of 1830; Adventures on the Ice; Extrication of the remaining Vessels ; General Results—Abstract of the Whale-fishings from 1815 to 1834 inclusive—Statement from 1835 to 1842—Details for 1843 and 1844 Page 344 CHAPTER XL ?aCTIC OEOLOGY. 1 North Cape—Cher
. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history ; and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. CONTENTS. 15 Dangers—Capital invested in the Trade; Its Produce; Ports whence it is carried on—^Disasters and Shipwrecks of 1830; Adventures on the Ice; Extrication of the remaining Vessels ; General Results—Abstract of the Whale-fishings from 1815 to 1834 inclusive—Statement from 1835 to 1842—Details for 1843 and 1844 Page 344 CHAPTER XL ?aCTIC OEOLOGY. 1 North Cape—Cherie Island, with its Secondary Sandstones, Coal, and Plutonian Rocks—Hope Island, and the Thousand Islands—Spitzbergen, its Mountain-scenery, its Primitive^ Transition, Secondary, Tertiary, and Alluvial Rocks—Mof- fen Island, of Recent Formation; Low Island, of Transition Formation; Walden Isle, of Primitive Rocks—Ross's Islet, the most northern known Land, composed of Granite-gneiss, with imbedded Precious Garnet—Remarks—Jan Mayen's Island, a Volcanic Island; Two Volcanoes described—Old Greenland—East Coast of Greenland, very wild and rugged —Werner Mountains, 6000 Feet high; Rocks, Primitive, Transition, Secondary, and Plutonian; Of the Secondary Rocks, the most important, as being intimately connected with the Antediluvian Climate of Greenland, are those of the Coal Formation, which Scoresby discovered, forming Jameson's Land—West Coast of Greenland, equally rugged and wild with the East Coast; Hot Spring there; the pre- vailing Rocks Primitive, containing rare and beautiful Simple Minerals; Transition Rocks seldom met with; Considerable •Depositions of Secondary and Tertiary Rocks in some Places —Barrow's Strait—Melville Island interesting to the Geolo- gist, from its containing the old Coal Formation—Port Bowen—Islands and Countries bordering on Hudson's Bay examined and partly discovered by Captain Parry—Con- cluding Remarks w 40
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