. 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. /. 402 ARCTIC GEOLOGY. CHAPTER XI. Arctic Geology. 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 Primiti
. 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. /. 402 ARCTIC GEOLOGY. CHAPTER XI. Arctic Geology. 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 tht 3ast 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 partlv discovered by Captain Parry—Con- cluding Remarks. The Geology of Spitzbergen, called East or Old Green- land, and the countries examined and discovered by Ross, Parry, Scoresby, and Clavering, although as yet but im- perfectly known, is far from being uninteresting. It exhibits, in the first place, the same rocks, and the same i. Please note that these images are ex
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