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all the west coast north of Ice Fjord. The Foreland Moun- 

 tains are probably as high as any in this region, and one of 

 them may even be higher than Hedgehog Mountain. They 

 are all unclimbed, and even unmapped, save in the crudest 

 manner. In the neighbourhood of Magdalena Bay there 

 is also excellent climbing of steep and difficult rocks to be 

 found. There are plenty of hills farther east, approachable 

 from the fjords ; but they are, I believe, in no case difficult, 

 owing to the nature of the materials of which they consist. 



The exploration of the snow-free valleys is scarcely 

 begun. Any one who would devote a season to mapping 

 and traversing the area westward of Advent Bay, between 

 Ice Fjord, Bell Sound, and the sea, would be doing excellent 

 work, for the region is most interesting both to geologists 

 and physical geographers. There is a large snow-free area 

 of uncertain breadth extending from Ekman Bay (of North 

 Fjord) eastward to Klaas Billen Bay, and from Ice Fjord 

 northward to Wijde Bay and along its west shore. Much 

 good work might be done here from the moving base of a 

 boat, especially rather late in the season in years when 

 Dickson Bay is clear of ice. The third more or less 

 snow-free region in which much remains to be discovered 

 is that between the wrongly-named Van Keulen Bay (it 

 should be called Sardam or Michel Rynier Bay, I believe) 

 and the southern limit of the area explored by us. The 

 most interesting part of this region is that penetrated by 

 the deep valleys at the head of the two branches of Low 

 Sound (misnamed Van Mijen on the chart). By either of 

 these valleys, and especially by the southern, a rush might 

 be made to the east coast. 



The inland ice-sheets may be taken piecemeal. From 

 Horn Sund and the head of Van Keulen Bay the whole 

 southern sheet can be explored ; but Van Keulen is seldom 



