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[44] Specimens from the Promontory of Cape Parry, which rises into a hill, seven hundred feet high. Strata dipping lightly to the northward.
207 Yellowish-gray dolomite, imperfectly crystalline, being similar to the limestone of Lake Winipeg.
208 Brownish dolomite impregnated with silica.
209 Thin-slaty, gray limestone. Very common also in Lake Winipeg.
210, 211 Boulders of dolomite.
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213 Brown dolomite, with drusy cavities and veins, lined by calc-spar.
[45] In the geological notices appended to the narrative of Captain Franklin's Journey to the Coppermine, I have termed this rock a dark purplish-red felspar rock. On examining it again on this journey, I perceived it to be a greenstone, whose surfaces weather of a rusty brown colour.
