Between Seal River and Eskimo Point, a distance of about 140 statute miles, the shore-line appears to be uniform with a low country behind it, broken only by an occasional hummock, probably of drift. The shingle of the beach is said to consist largely of limestone, and it is not improbable that behind this section of the coast, there is a considerable area of the flat-lying limestones, similar to those along the lower parts of the Churchill and Nelson Rivers. If this part of the coast were occupied by crystalline rocks, we should probably have a hilly country with a broken coast-line, like that further north, whereas the low appearance of the land and the even trend of the shore are analogous to the conditions which prevail where the Silurian rocks are met with further south on the Bay. [Sidenote: Varieties of rocks.] [Sidenote: Veinstones.] [Sidenote: Iron pyrites.] [Sidenote: Gold and silver.] [Sidenote: Pyrites from veins.] [Sidenote: Gold in quartz.] From Eskimo Point to the entrance of Chesterfield Inlet, the distance is about 180 statute miles, in a straight line. The rock-specimens from this section embrace fine-grained hornblende-schists, greenstones, quartz and epidote rock, light grey, coarse-grained sandstone, altered to quartzite, and holding fragments of indurated red shale, compact banded white quartz-rock, with crystals of iron pyrites in some of the layers, quartzite like that of Marble Island, grey felsites, crystalline hornblende rock, diorite consisting of compact white felspar with long crystals of dark hornblende, banded grey hornblende and quartz-rock, with some layers approaching chert, mica-schists of different kinds, mixed hornblende- and mica-schist, chocolate-colored porphyry with flesh-colored crystals of felspar and grains of clear quartz, granulite, red jasper with dull fracture, hard, brownish-red sandstone, grey felsitic quartzite with lenticular patches of dark mica-schist, chloritic schist, about fifty pounds of granular iron pyrites, several hundreds of cubes of iron pyrites, the largest measuring about one inch in diameter, taken from a dark, glossy schist, quartz veinstone with large scales of light-colored mica, with garnets, calcspar veinstone with embedded crystals of quartz and having grey steatitic rock adhering to it, also a veinstone of quartz, containing silky radiating aggregates of hornblende and a few specks of calcspar and iron pyrites; some soft greenish schist is attached to this specimen. There are eleven specimens of the granular iron pyrites, which were collected at different points in the above distance. Small pieces of soft dark-greenish schist adhere to some of them. Mr. Hoffmann has made an assay of one of the specimens of pyrites from a bay south of Cape Jones, which forms the southern horn of Rankin Inlet, and found it to contain no copper, but to show traces of gold and 0.175 of an ounce of silver to the ton of 2,000 pounds.