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 . SAUNDERS ISLAND. Since then. Cape York, the southern promontory ofthe country, has been on the path of the whalers enroute to Lancaster Sound, and the ships of everySmith-Sound Arctic Expedition have passed along itsshores. This co
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 . SAUNDERS ISLAND. Since then. Cape York, the southern promontory ofthe country, has been on the path of the whalers enroute to Lancaster Sound, and the ships of everySmith-Sound Arctic Expedition have passed along itsshores. This coast presents characteristics differentfrom those of any portion of the west coast of Green-land, to the south. The nearly continuous glacierfaces of Melville Bay, broken only here and there bynunataks, as well as the meshwork of narrow fjords I Appendix 449 and labyrinth of off-lying islands, forming the coastfrom the Devils Thumb to Cape Farewell, give placehere to the bold continuous lines of the main rock-mass of the Glacial Continent, presenting impregnableramparts which need no picket-line of islands to breakthe assaults of sea and ice. The following geological description of the regionis by Prof. T. C. Chamberlin. In the region of Inglefield Gulf, ancient crystal-line rocks of the gneissic type are bordered by sand-. OOMUNUI. stones and shales of unknown aee. While the fullextent of this clastic series could not be determined,even within the region visited, because it reached backunder the ice-cap, there were abundant grounds forthe belief that it is but a narrow skirting belt. It wasseen to be interrupted at frequent points by the com-ing of the crystalline series to the shore. At otherpoints, bays and valleys were observed to reach backacross the clastic belt to the crystalline series clastic series embraces three distinenishablemembers. The lowest is a red sandstone which at- 450 Northward over the Great Ice tains a thickness of perhaps one thousand to fifte
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