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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13206175753).jpg 50 GEOLOGICAL MEMOIRS <br> pelled by necessity to remain behind We found in truth an axe a <br> saw a barrel of quass or small-beer along with ia store of salt dried <br> fish meal and salted sea-fowl Alca arctica I immediately pro- <br> ceeded to examine the more elevated south side of the island and <br> followed the eastern shore Even in the vicinity of Nordhafen I saw <br> in a precipice certainly more than 200 feet high four beds of coal <br> running between the strata of fine-grained grey sandstone but none <br> of these beds was above an ell two feet thick Hence in a situation <br> so unfavourable for workmg they can never become of any economical <br> importance Even Bennet in his time knew of this coal and brought <br> some of it with him to England At the same time he collected on <br> Gull Island near Nordhafen a quantity of galena and thus procured <br> for Bear Island the reputation of great mineral wealth Yet the Nor- <br> wegian sailors from Hammerfest who are well-acquainted with the <br> whole island look in vain for Gull Island They either altogether <br> deny its existence or assert that it must have been destroyed by the <br> waves Farther to the east a small stream falls into the sea named <br> Engelsk Elv from the graves of some Englishmen at its mouth In <br> A <br> Mount Misery <br> that place two beds of coal again appear running as before perfectly <br> horizontal along the cliff The harder beds of sandstone project from <br> the precipice and extend like steps one above the other for a great <br> distance They form the abode of whole hosts of sea-fowl which <br> here lay their eggs and bring out their young This perfect horizon- <br> tality of the beds over the whole island is a very remarkable and <br> striking phsenomenon Even the common sailors remark that they <br> are constantly sailing over the horizontal foundation of Bear Island <br> when proceeding from this place to Hope Island or even further to <br> the Archipelago of the Thousand Isles near Spitzbergen a portion of <br> the Arctic Ocean which has everywhere only a very moderate depth <br> Even on the mountains of East Spitzbergen the same horizontality is <br> maintained as Keilhau has himself observed and represented in his <br> work ; a proof of the great distance of these beds from the destroying <br> and elevating action of the granite and gneiss mountains And as <br> Keilhau has found that on Stans Foreland hyperite or hypersthene <br> rock basalt of Keilhau forms the foundation of all the other beds 36933281 113687 51125 Page 50 Text v 3 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36933281 1847 Geological Society of London NameFound Alca arctica NameConfirmed Alca arctica Linnaeus 1758 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 3 1847 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36933281 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36933281 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-17 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13206175753 2015-08-26 12 50 54 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1847 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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