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Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827

Note 39 — APPENDIX.

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Horizontal limestone beds lying under the sandstone.

166 Fine-grained limestone, with an earthy fracture, coloured brown and grayish-white in patches.

167, 168 Similar stone to preceding, containing many shells. Some beds contain only broken shells.

169 Bed of imperfectly crystalline limestone, of a brownish-gray colour, traversed by veins of calc-spar.

170 Fragments containing madrepores and chain coral—occur amongst the debris of the limestone cliffs.

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