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northern part of Dove Bugt, whereas the ice above the range of 
mountains between the fjords and lakes mentioned lay comparatively 
quiescent. 
The difference of altitude between the ridge of Store Koldewey, 
south of Bergs Fjord, and the sea bottom in Dove Bugt is 1000 to 
1400 m. Store Koldewey, therefore, lay as an immense barrier, which 
was, it is true, concealed by névés, but which the east-going ice 
currents could not pass. Part of the ice currents of Dove Bugt 
consequently flowed in a southerly direction along Store Koldewey. 
North of Bergs Fjord the hills on Store Koldewey do not rise much 
above 400 m, whereas the corresponding depth in Dove Bugt, judging 
by the existing soundings, does not materially exceed 200 m. Here 
the ice currents could break the resistance offered by the terrain; in 
the northern part of Dove Bugt the motion of the ice therefore 
continued towards east across the northern part of Store Koldewey 
(see Fig. 94) and the low coast land and the small islands round 
Danmarks Havn. 
The time which has passed since the coastland was denuded of 
ice is so short, that since then only one material change can have 
taken place in the appearance of the land, that is the one, which 
is due to the circumstance that great stretches of the present coast 
land, after the ice period, have risen above the level of the sea. 
This fact however only in a less material degree affects the land- 
forms, and so in Northeast Greenland one gets an immediate and 
strong impression of the fact, that the landforms created by the 
ice may be referred to two types, very different in aspect: The 
moutonnéed (rounded) rocks, corresponding with the localities where 
the motion of the ice has been strongest, and the plateau, corre- 
sponding with the stretches where the motion of the ice has been 
very slight. Between these types there are, however, also transition 
forms. 
The moutonnéed landform. 
Seen at some distance the moutonnéed landform often, in a sur- 
prising degree, reminds one of the hilly (moraine) landform, so 
common in the North-European lowlands. We find the same rounded, 
dome-shaped or elongated forms, the same soft transitions between 
ranges of hills and valleys. But if one stands in the middle of a 
stretch of moutonnéed land, the impression becomes a different one. 
The hills then prove to consist, not of loose moraine sediments, but 
of more or less denuded bedrock, which is polished smooth by the 
ice, to such an extent that its surface has become as even as a 
flagged but undulating ground. Of the loose material which the ice 
