390 I. Р. Косн. 
however, inclined to look for the principal cause in the fact that 
HAGEN, who brought with him РЕАВУ’$ map sketch of 1892 and 
whose bearings in the interior of the fjord, as indicated, must be 
supposed to be subject to an error of about 14 degrees, has not been 
able to bring about the necessary harmony in the connection between 
his own and PEArY’s observations. He has, therefore, forced by 
circumstances, put off this part of the preparation of the maps, until 
he had at his disposal a more complete computation of his ob- 
servations. 
The Marie Sophie Bræ. At the extreme western edge of 
his croquis (Medd. om Gronl. XLI, Pl. IV) HAGEN has delineated a 
glacier which from Heïlprin Land seems to project out into Inde- 
pendence Fjord, and on the croquis he has called it Marie Sophie 
Breen, after the wife of Myzius-ERICHSEN. Only the eastern part of 
the glacier, the direction of which from Mylius-Erichsen’s Cairn is 
nearly N55° W, is shown on the croquis; the remainder of the 
croquis falls outside the paper, and consequently one can know 
nothing of its dimensions. As PEARY on his sketch map in “North- 
ward over the Great Ice”, vol. I, p. 353, has not indicated any glacier 
in this place, nor mentioned it in his description of the view from 
Navy Cliff, I could not but suppose that the Marie Sophie Bræ 
was a comparatively insignificant glacier. Consequently I delineated 
it in small dimensions on the map of the Danmark-Ekspedition 
(Medd. om Grønl. XLVI, Pl. IV); at the same time I moved it a little 
towards west, in order to obtain harmony between the coast contours 
of PEARY and HAGEN on the north side of "Peary Channel”. That 
this transfer did not harmonize with the real facts of the case has 
been shown by FREUCHEN’s subsequent observations. 
According to FREUCHEN’s map it might be a case of two glaciers 
being identical with the Marie Sophie Br&, that is M. Ib Nyeboes Bræ 
and Glacier I. The position of the former, however, in relation to 
the cairn harmonizes very badly with HaGeEn’s indication. The 
direction to the northern edge of this glacier at the foot of Kap 
Schmelck is about М 89° + 14° W. In case the Marie Sophie Bre 
and M. Ib Nyeboes Bre are to be considered identical, one must pre- 
suppose that there is an error in HaGen’s bearings of about 14° + 34°, 
which in itself is very improbable and besides causes other very 
serious results. 
There is still the other possibility that Glacier I and the Marie 
Sophie Bre are identical. As already stated on р. 383 the position 
and the direction of Glacier I harmonize closely with the position 
and direction indicated by HAGEN for the Marie Sophie Bre. But 
