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sen’s Cairn to Navy Cliff is about 43 km. The correction for refraction 
and curvature of the earth corresponding to 43 km may be put at 
116 metres, HaceEn’s height of vision at 27 metres. The vertical angle 
of Navy Cliff above the horizon of the cairn thus becomes equal to 
1158 — (116 + 27) 
13000 > 34938 = about 81.1 
according to which the altitude above the apparent horizon becomes 
nearly 81'.1 + 7’.7 = about 88'.8. In the panorama the corresponding 
linear measure is 22mm. In the panorama Point 10 has an altitude 
of about 25mm above the apparent horizon. This altitude is to be 
reduced by about 1mm, as shown by the joining of the two parts 
of the panorama. In this manner the angular altitude of Point 10 
NS x 24 — about 96/8 
according to which the altitude above the horizon may be put at 
96.8 + 7.7 = about 89. This value gives in the case of Kap 
Schmelck the altitude 920 metres or about 250 metres higher than 
indicated on FREUCHEN’s map. The discrepancy would correspond 
to an error of about 6mm in Hacen’s drawing. It is perhaps not 
probable that HAGEN should commit such an error of drawing, nor 
is it necessary to presume this, PEAry’s altitude of Navy Cliff being 
harometrically determined after a very long journey across the inland 
ice, for which reason it must necessarily be rather uncertain. 
As a last objection to the hypothesis in question I will add that 
the panorama farthest to the right shows two skerries which lie 
considerably nearer to the standing place than the apparent horizon. 
The distance to the nearest skerries in the direction of Kap Schmelck 
is according to FREUCHEN’s map about 18 km; these skerries according 
to the presupposition made must be visible in the apparent horizon. 
This objection is not very important, among other things because 
one cannot presuppose FREUCHEN to have measured at all the skerries. 
However, it derives some importance from the fact that there would 
be no corresponding discrepancy between FREUCHEN’s map and HAGEN's 
drawing, if one dared to look upon Point 4 as identical with Kap 
Schmelck. 
The two conceptions of HAGEN's panorama which have been 
discussed above may be briefly indicated as 
a) Peak 7 identical with FREUCHEn’s Peak 710 about 10km 
northeast of Kap Schmelck, and 
b) Peak 7 identical with Navy Cliff. 
above the apparent horizon becomes about 
The former of these possibilities resulted in several rather serious 
consequences i. €. 
