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Chr. Bendix Thostrup 



side of a large, loose stone-boulder and was oval, 250 M. long and 

 1-25 M. broad; the opening faced the N. E. and was OoO M. broad. 



Bastionerne (lat. 76° 56', long. 20° 1Г). Regarding what was 

 found at this place (452; fig. 40) Mylius-Euichsen writes in his diary: 



"Esliinio stone structure: Breadtli of interior 097 M., lengtli of interior 

 Г30 M., lieiglit of largest stone 030 M., 9 stones in all — not more than an 

 inch or two^ sunk into the ground; fitting very exactly together. Lay on a 

 middle moraine — an uneven gravelly ridge of up to 100 feet^ in height, 

 in the middle of a cla\' and gravel plain on the north side of the large 

 Salmon River ^, facing the south with view over the river. 



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Fig. 4U. ï>hclter 452. ßastioiicrne. 



This stone striu'lurc was llic first оГ its kind the ExjX'dition liad met with; it was I'ound I)y 



Mylivs-Euic.hsen wlio calk'd it "shelter" or 'iumtinj; shelter". (I'hoto. by Нлкох .1лпм:и'. 



Probably a shelter for a reindeer hunter and salmon fisherman. 



The stones slightly overgrown (the red and the black lichen) gneiss 

 stones of the moraine, which consisted of gravel and pebbles. 



I tried to lie in it and could easily lie there with bent knees — an 

 Eskimo naturally much better; then he covered hiiuself with a pelt — 

 just as the natives of Кар York do on their search for birds' eggs and the 

 eider duck on Dalrymple Rock". 



3—5 cm. 

 elven. 



-'Greatest heiglit of the gravel ridge 27 meters above the sea. ^ Lakse- 



