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[[image: stratiographic, colored cross section of an area, left to right, from Intrepid Inlet, Fitz James Strait Mellville Sound, [[?Jerome]] Bay, Red Sound, Prince Regent Inlet, the bodies of water so labelled. Blue for water Brown for [[?Lias.]] Light blue-gray for Carboniferous Limestone Dark gray for Lower Carboniferous Foundation underlying Coal Black for Coal Greenish gray for Upper Silurian. Light tan for Sandstone & Conglomerates Red for Granitic - Gneiss, &c Gray for Granitic - Gneiss & Syenite]] Each of the types of surface are so labelled where they are at the surface, left to right: |Caboniferous Limestone|Intrepid Inlet|Lias Strata|Fitz James Strait|Carboniferous Limestone|Lower Carboniferous and Coal|Mellville Sound|Upper Silurian Formation|Granitoid|[[?Jerome]] Bay|Granitoid|Red Sound|Granitoid|upper Silurian|Prince Regent Inlet|Upper Silurian| Each division named and is separated by an annotated vertical line, corresponding to the starting point of the surface material.]] [[there are detailed descriptions of the diagram across the top of this long sheet illustration, roughly over the terrain described. [[far left, written vertically]] [[?77 ?degree symbol + 120 ?degree symbol] Prince Patrick Island 1/2 way between Parker's Bay and [[?Satelite]] Bay, South of Cape McClintuck [[/far left, written vertically]] [[labelled vertical lines leading up from specified lines of demarcation between types of topography. The lines are labelled, left to right: Intrepid Inlet [[unlabelled]] Fitts James Strait Mellville Island Parry or Mellville Sound Prince of Wales Island Browne Bay Prescott Islands Peel Sound North Somersett Island Prince Regent Inlet 72 [[degree symbol]] 90 [[degree symbol]] Cockburn Island Cape [[?Kay]] [[/labelled vertical lines...]] [[first top note starting at Intrepid Inlet vertical line]] A few hundred yards from the beach [[?there]] are steep hills, about 150 feet high of a reddish limestone, [[?containing ?]] of [[?fossil ?shells]] in abundance, of the Lias formation They rest upon carboniferous limestones and sandstone. The eastern shore of Intrepid inlet is composed of the Lias, while the western [[?rising]] into [[?tilted]] and [[?terraced]] is of the carboniferous epoch. [[/first top note starting at Intrepid Inlet vertical line]] [[second top note starting at Mellivlle Island vertical line]] The upper Silurian Limestones are succeeded by a most remarkable series of close grained white sandstones, containing numerous bands of highly bituminous coal, and but few marine fossils. These sandstones beds are succeeded by a series of fine limestone beds containing an abundance of the marine shells commonly found in all parts of the world where the carboniferous deposits are developed. Like the Silurian they occur in low flat beds, sometimes rising into cliffs, but never reaching the [[?above ?tide]] attained by the Silurian rocks in Lancaster Sound. "I do not believe in the elapse of a long interval of time between the Silurian and carboniferous deposits. - in fact, in a Devonian period. [[/second top note starting at Mellville Island vertical line]] [[third top note starting at the Prince of Wales Island vertical line]] The granitoid Rocks extend across Peel Sound into Prince of Wales Island, where it is over laid by the Silurian formation. [[/third top note starting at the Prince of Wales Island vertical line]] [[double vertical lines]] The Granitoid rocks are found on the West side of the Island of North Somerset, where they form the Eastern boundary of Peel Sound. The upper Selurian strata are separated from the Granitoid Rock by a group of Sandstone and conglomerate ^[[ [[? ? ?]] ]] The junction of the Granitoid and Silurian rocks occur in [[?Billott's]] Straits, the low ground of the East being horizontal beds of Silurian Limestone, while on the West the Granite [[?hills]] of West Somerset rise to a height of 1600 feet above the narrow Straits. The [[?Guissode]] beds of this Granite dips 13° E.
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This scan is too small to read. Need more magnification on text. Perhaps this overall shot, and four detailed blow-ups?
? This cross section of Northern Baffin Island and Nunavut, Canada appears to be far north (73 degrees 3 minutes 0 seconds N) of where Hall ventured. For example, Prescott Island is in Nunavut, Canada
