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the innermost end of which cuts deep into the nepheline-syenite 
body. The third fjord, Tunugdliarfik, cuts through the nephe- 
line-syenite mass at its broadest, dividing it into a southern and 
a northern half, and the northernmost fjord, the ice-filled Ser- 
milik, forms the northern boundary of the newer igneous rocks. 
Within the area indicated on the map there is at present 
only one inhabited place, Narsak, lying in the south-western 
part of the peninsula between Tunugdliarfik and Sermilik. 
In the following description the region is divided for the 
C.Farvel 
Fig. 2. Index map showing location of area represented in Plate Ш. 
sake of convenience into six distriets. The first embraces the 
surroundings of the inner part of Kangerdluarsuk Fjord; the 
second and third respectively the southern and the northern 
coast of Tunugdliarfik Fjord; the high mountains of Ilimausak 
may be considered as a fourth district, while the last two divi- 
sions are the neigbourhood of Narsak and the south coast of 
Sermilik Fjord. 
THE AMPHITHEATRE OF KANGERDLUARSUK. 
The word Kangerdluarsuk has almost the same meaning as 
fjord, and half a hundred of the innumerable fjords of Greenland 
