12 EJNAR MIKKELSEN. 
Large trunks were seen in other places far removed from the coast, 
in one case 1% mile inland and about 6—10 metres above highwater- 
mark and at the bottom of the partly sheltered Frozen Bay. 
The above-mentioned flat and low valley, which gives the impres- 
sion of being an elevated ocean-bed, extends in a longitudinal direction 
across Shannon Island, separating the high parts on the east side of the 
island from the 
high part on the 
western side, 
thus making a 
sharp division 
between these 
two bodies of 
land. 
The valley ex- 
tends as shown 
on the drawing 
Frozen B. (Fig. 3), where 
the marked 
places indicate 
the apparently 
raised ocean- 
bed. The mark 
x indicates the 
place, where the 
above-menti-. 
oned driftwood 
was found far 
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С Parch 
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G Philip Broke 
(Bere EEE eee ey 
c: 0 miles inland, and 
=== apparently elevated ocean-beds . = the coast 
with the raised 
benches. 
Fig. 3. The valley was 
covered with an 
abundance of grass and mosses, but otherwise marshy, so much so that the 
footprints of the musk-ox were about 30cm deep. These footprints 
were exceedingly abundant, and it seemed incredible that the animals 
should not have been here last summer, as the edges of the holes were 
quite sharp and apparently untouched by the flow of water, which 
would have washed down the edges and rounded them off, if they 
had been there during the spring. However we looked in vain for places 
where the muskoxen had gnawed off the tops of the grasses to any extent. 
Among other interesting things in this southerly valley we saw 
a place which must have been an ancient eskimo camping-site. Scattered 
over the ground we found four craniums of bears and six of musk-oxen; 
