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lines of the so-called isblink-"* or inland-ice, as well as for the ice- 

 caps and mountain glaciers, which originating in the outlying pla- 

 teaus and mountains, form a fringe about the central ice mass. 



It has been shown to be characteristic of the ice-caps and smaller 

 inland-ice areas of the Arctic region outside of Greenland, that 

 their lobate margins are in part accounted for by extensions of the 



Fig. 21. Map of the region about King Oscars and Kaiser Franz Josef 

 fjords, Eastern Greenland, showing the areas of the numerous ice-caps 

 (after P. Dusen). 



cap upon the plateau between intersecting valleys or fjords, as well 

 as by extensions down these valleys. These latter extensions of the 

 ice sheets are, however, much the narrower. Identically the same 

 features are found to characterize the Greenland inland-ice 

 as well. The manner in which this occurs in Greenland has been 



" " Iceblink," which has been suggested by some writers, is a term gen- 

 erally applied among navigators to describe the appearance of ice on the 

 horizon, and is contrasted with " land blink," which describes the peculiar 

 loom of the land. In order to apply the term to the inland-ice without con- 

 fusion, it is, therefore, better to retain the Danish form of the word. 



PROC. AMER. PHIL. SOC. , XLIX, I94 F, PRINTED JUNE 9, I9IO. 



