. Narrative of a voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875-6 in ships ' Alert' and 'Discovery' [microform]. Alert (Ship); Discovery (Ship); Alerte (Navire); Discovery (Navire); Natural history; Sciences naturelles. '[f^TC^ ARCTIC VKCl' 141 i I oil the same s|)()t, iind it Avoiild thus appeal' thai a ia\()iiral)le coinhiuatioii ol'soil, sheher fVoni winds, and full I'Xposure to tla^ sun have more io do with the It of fl( (le\('loj)meiit of tloweiMuir ])lants ui tlie i olar ivoious than parallels of latitude. Two ermines, a male and iennde, were shot hy J/ieuteuant Giflai'd on IV'llot Is
. Narrative of a voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875-6 in ships ' Alert' and 'Discovery' [microform]. Alert (Ship); Discovery (Ship); Alerte (Navire); Discovery (Navire); Natural history; Sciences naturelles. '[f^TC^ ARCTIC VKCl' 141 i I oil the same s|)()t, iind it Avoiild thus appeal' thai a ia\()iiral)le coinhiuatioii ol'soil, sheher fVoni winds, and full I'Xposure to tla^ sun have more io do with the It of fl( (le\('loj)meiit of tloweiMuir ])lants ui tlie i olar ivoious than parallels of latitude. Two ermines, a male and iennde, were shot hy J/ieuteuant Giflai'd on IV'llot Island. We had piv- viously obtained a s])erimen in a fox's eailh north of Floebei'jj: Beach, and Beaumont sliot one on tlie shores of North Greenland. Although a great munber of hares had been shot by the sportsmen from the '•Dis- covery,' there still remained a large number; many of these were secured, and provided a daily meal of fresh meat for our sick men while we remained in tiie neigliboiu'hood. DiU'ing our eni'orced detention in Discovery Bay the dredge and trawl were several times called Into requisition. On the KJtli, the weather still remaining distress- ingly fme and calm, an excnrsion was imide to tlie coal-beds near Ca])e Murcliison. This de])()sit of coal, or. more correctly, liu'nite, is exi)osed in a ravine near Waterconrse Bay, for a distance of over two lumdred yards. At its greatest exposure the thickness of the seam is twenty-five feet, but we had no means of ascertaining how much deeper it descended below the level of the stream. vVbove the coal aiv beds of shale and sandstones. In tliese shales were foimd a con- siderable number of leaf impressions, similar to those found ill the Mio the geological |\ii\' ui'. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Nares, George S. (George Str
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