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25 Sept. climbed with mac to top of thermome-
ter hill forming western extremity of the
northern side of Foulke fjord. my anroid
gave elevation 1625 ft., his 1000.- on his as-
cent a week ago he got a reading of 1050 ft.
thermometer wh. he left-there a week ago
gave min. 8.90 max 34°.
The cap of the hill is a bed of diabase 30 to
40 feet thick. Specimens No. 694 & 695-both
spec 696 was taken from bed of much decon-
posd diabase(?) lying below the cap and
perhaps separated from it by a bed or
beds of quartzite.
Upper portions of thermometer hill
show gravel + boulder streams or flows
(solidfication) in exceptional develop-
ment. 50-100 feet below summit
on western side there is a well marked
flow of this kind which seems to be
150-200 yds long and 20-40 yds
wide, descending east southward.
The rock illustrated by spec. 696 disin-
tegrates into bullet-like gravel scatter-
ed through ferruginous yellowish
brown sand and this mixture
flows down hill like a stream or
glacier.
The level portion of the hill 850-900 feet
above sea is a regular quicksand or quag-
mire mixture of clayey matter + quartz bits-