Survey of Northeast Greenland. 927 
The level very unsettled on account of radiation. We constantly 
had to adjust the levelling screws. Mist everywhere on the horizon. 
Terrestrial measuring impossible. 
Clock comparison 11/V, forenoon, Chron. 57203 9852™00s  9h52m305 
Watch K 736 25.4 7 36 55.6 
Started at 11.45 a. m. in bright sunshine, but very heavy sledding 
after the snowstorm. We left a depot consisting of: 
21/2 boxes of dog pemmican, 1 box of greaves, meat of musk 
oxen for 25 dogs for about 13 days. 
We intended to move down to the sea ice, but we only left the 
shore after a journey of 18 km, because it lay nearly one degree 
further east than supposed. According as we approached the coast, 
the country became flatter and more and more covered with snow, 
so that we could drive for a kilometre without coming upon bare 
spots. The gravel in these spots became finer and finer and was at 
last replaced by a mixture of clay and pebbles, which bore a striking 
resemblance to bottom moraines. This mixture in one place came 
very near to being a conglomerate. The pebbles in it, which were 
not rounded in any considerable degree (in the samples there just 
happens to be one very rounded stone) were sorted and situated in 
layers in the clay. The conglomerate contained shells; it was found 
about 10 m above the level of the sea and only about 2 km from 
the coastline. 
The transition to the sea ice was only discernible on account 
of a somewhat disintegrated pressure ridge which marked the high 
water of the spring tide. After having passed this ridge we kept on 
driving on land for another half kilometre, before we reached the 
sea ice!) In this place the ice bears no visible traces of the 
daily tide. 
By and by a very thick mist had set in. As it was impossible 
in these conditions to follow the faintly marked coast line, and as 
the snow on the sea ice seemed firm and even, I let Togras set a 
course due north. By this course we got at last into the packs of 
palæocrystic ice. At this period — 7.30 p.m. — we had made about 
30 km, which was quite sufficient for our surfeited dogs. Consequently 
we camped on the pack ice. 
The weather: At noon bright sunshine, though with fog banks 
on the horizon; a burning sun, calm. At 3 p.m. the fog began to 
1) For a long time we did not know whether we were on land or on sea, and once 
we tried to dig through the layer of snow, in order to see whether there was 
land or ice under us. We gave up the attempt after having dug a hole of 2m 
without reaching the ground. 
