The coast along which we were now traveling possessed much interest. It presented a line of very lofty cliffs of Silurian rocks[9]--sandstone and limestone--much broken down by the wasting influences of the winter frosts and summer thaws. Behind these cliffs the land rose into lofty peaks, such as I have before described. Upon the sides of these peaks the snow rested, clothing them with a uniform whiteness; but nowhere was there any evidence of mountain-ice. Along the entire coast of Grinnell Land no glacier appears, presenting thus a striking contrast to Greenland and the land on the south side of the Channel which I discovered while crossing Smith Sound--the Ellesmere Land of Captain Inglefield. [Footnote 9: At Capes Leidy, Frazer, and other points of the coast I subsequently obtained a considerable collection of fossils,--all of which were forwarded to the Smithsonian Institution, at Washington, soon after my return home. Unhappily, the finest of them were lost after having been sent from Philadelphia; but a sufficient number of specimens were found among the geological collections to enable Prof. F. B. Meek, to whom I intrusted them, to establish some interesting points of comparison. In a short paper published in Silliman's Journal, for July, 1865, Prof. Meek enumerates and describes twelve species. Some of the specimens were imperfect, and their specific character could not be determined. The list is as follows:-- 1. _Zaphrentis Hayesii._ 2. _Syringopora * * * *._ 3. _Favosites * * * *._ 4. _Strophomena Rhomboidalis._ 5. _Strophodonta Headleyana._ 6. _Strophodonta Beckii._ 7. _Rhynchonella * * * *._ 8. _Cœlospira concava._ 9. _Spirifer * * * *._ 10. _Loxonema Kanei._ 11. _Orthoceras * * * *._ 12. _Illænus * * * *._ Prof. Meek makes this observation:--"From the foregoing list, it is believed that geologists will agree that the rocks at this highest locality at which fossils have ever been collected, belong to the Upper Silurian era. The most remarkable fact, however, is, that they are nearly all very closely allied to, and some of them apparently undistinguishable from species found in the Catskill shaly Limestone of the New York Lower Helderberg group."] During this day's journey I had discovered numerous traces of the former presence of Esquimaux. They were similar to those which I had before found in Gould Bay. I also picked up some fossils at Cape Frazer and other places, which clearly exhibited the character of the rock. There were but few traces of vegetation in those places where the land had been bared of snow by the winds. A willow stem (probably, _Salix arctica_), a single specimen of a dead saxifrage (_Saxifraga oppositifolia_), and a tuft of dried grass (_Festuca ovina_), were all that I found. [Sidenote: ACCIDENT TO JENSEN.]