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ing, but in two nearly opposite stretches of shore it widens to from 

 sixty to one hundred miles (see Fig. 17). 



At the heads of many deep fjords long and narrow marginal 

 tongues pushing out from the central mass reach to below sea level ; 

 and within three limited stretches of shore the ice mantle overlaps 

 the borders of the continent and reaches the sea in a broad front. 



Fig. 16. Map showing the supposed area of inland-ice upon Baffin Land 

 (from Andree's " Handatlas "). 



The longest of these begins near the Devil's Thumb on the west 

 coast at about latitude 74' 30", and extends with some interrup- 

 tions for about one hundred and fifty miles along the coast of Mel- 

 ville Bay.^^ Where crossed by Nansen near the parallel of 64°, and 

 hence near the southern margin, and also where traversed by Peary 

 near its northwestern borders, the inland-ice has revealed much 



^^ T. C. Chamberlin, " Glacial Studies in Greenland," III., Jour. Geol., 

 Vol. 3, 1895, pp. 62-63. 



