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Kitdlavat lies Laxefjeld (660 meters) with a strangely incongruous, 
dark-green colour; it consists of lujavrite. Towards the north- 
east and north the fjord is hemmed in by lower mountains, 
more crumbling in their nature, with more rounded form and 
even slopes; they consist in part of dark-coloured lujavrite, but 
mostly of a white nepheline-syenite. Towards the north-west, 
lastly, Mount Nunasarnausak (750 meters) with its almost ver- 
tical sides projects right out to the fjord (Pl. V, Fig. 3 and Pl. 
VII, Fig. 2); its plateau form and its dark masses of sandstone 
and diabase are in striking contrast to the adjacent light-coloured 
nepheline-syenite. 
On the north side of the fjord a mountain torrent has cut 
out a gully and given rise to the deposition of a gravel cone 
(Pl. VII, Fig. 2). Here by the beach there is a little grass and 
low shrubs, and travellers are accustomed to set up their tent 
at this spot. At the head of the fjord there is a brook of no 
great size, marked on the map as Lille-Eiv, and a short 
distance to the south of this there is a more considerable 
water-course, which comes from the valley between Kitdlavat 
and Laxefjæld and which, owing to the abundance of salmon in 
it, is called Laxe-Elv (i. e. Salmon River). Close under the 
steep Nunasarnausak near the north side of the fjord lies the 
small island Kekertausak. 
In the following detailed description ofthe geological features, 
the main types of the igneous rocks are only dealt with on 
broad lines, just as they appear on viewing them directly; a 
more exact, petrographic description will be given in the fol- 
lowing chapter. 
THE INNERMOST END OF THE FJORD: 
THE NAUJAITE. 
General features. — From the small island Kekertausak as 
far as the outlet of Lille Elv, or over a distance of a little more 
