Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . HAKLUYT ISLAND. consecutive sedimentation reachinor a total thicknessof four or five thousand feet perhaps. Unfortunatelythe series is extremely barren of fossils. While it isby no means safe to assume the entire absence offossils
Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . HAKLUYT ISLAND. consecutive sedimentation reachinor a total thicknessof four or five thousand feet perhaps. Unfortunatelythe series is extremely barren of fossils. While it isby no means safe to assume the entire absence offossils ; while, indeed, it is perhaps safer to assumetheir presence, they are very rare, or else circum-scribed in their distribution within the reo^ion remain grounds for hope that sufficient fossilswill ultimately be found to determine the age or the Appendix 451 ages of the series. The whole group has usually beenreferred, with doubt, to the Tertiary age, because ofthe presence of rocks of that age, with a similar con-stitution, in the Disco region. Igneous dykes traverse the series and the adjacentcrystalline terranes. These are obviously later thanthe rocks traversed by them, but not necessarily laterthan all of the clastic series. Horizontal sheets of ig-neous rock were seen in a few cases, but whether they. CHANNEL BETWEEN NORTHUMBERLAND AND HAKLUYT ISLANDS. were intruded or outpoured on the surface was notdetermined. Both to the north and to the south of Whale Soundthe sandstones are very much less in evidence, therock formations being almost entirely gneissose. The country is really a double peninsula lying be-tween Melville Bay and Kane Basin on the southand north respectively, and Smith Sound and thegreat Inland Ice on the west and east respectively,—a peninsula cut nearly in two, near its middle latitude,by the great inlet Whale Sound. Its extent in lati-tude is very nearly 4°, and in longitude 8|-°. 452 Northward over the Great Ice The length of peripher
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