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on this profile does not always correspond with the notes on the daily 
route-sketches found in the text, wherefore I do not omit stating that 
the route-sketches were made on the spot and represented the seeming 
ice-conditions on the spot. The profile is of course the reliable material, 
as the heights have been worked out carefully after our return. 
The bottom end of the longitudinal ice-profile has a double cut, 
one where Laus’s party and mine travelled together, and the other 
where he was alone on his journey to the north and west of Dronning 
Louise’s Land. The rise of the ice on this latter profile is comparatively 
very considerable, but it must be born in mind that this route — al- 
most westerly — will appear much shorter when projected down on а 
rightangled profile, and the rise of the ice will therefore seem greater 
than it actually is. 
The cross-section at the bottom of the map gives, however, a better 
idea of the rise of the Inlandice where the main-direction of the course 
was nearly due W., and this cut, combined with the longitudinal cut, 
will give a fair idea of the height of the Inlandice passed by Глов. 
The height of the nunataks is not accurate, nor as a rule in pro- 
portion to the ice, and they have only been marked off on the profiles 
to show where land forms an obstacle against the free motion of the In- 
landice. Where we have been able to ascertain the height of a nuna- 
tak, or where information can be gathered from the results of the Dan- 
mark-Expedition, this height has been laid down in the same proportion 
as the Inlandice. 
This is particularly the case in the lower end of the longitudinal 
profile, and in the cross-section where the profiles show the real pro- 
portion between ice and land. 
The Bildsoe’s, Garde’s and Moltke’s Nunataks do not pretend m 
be in the right proportion as compared with the ice. 
It may be stated here that the daily route-sketches and the corres- 
ponding place on the route-map might not correspond, either as to dis- 
tance or direction. The route-map is however the most accurate, and 
the sketches tend only to show the apparent conditions of the place, 
that is whether there seemed to be a rise or fall and this only as seen 
by the eye and not with the aid of the theodolite. The travelled 
distance was guessed hour by hour, and a rather considerable over-esti- 
mation or under-estimation as to the actual travelled distance during the 
day may be found in some cases. 
Danmark’s Fjord. 
May 18th.. We reached Danmark’s Fjord at За. т. and continued 
our way outward towards Cape Holbæk, which rose quite vertically 
from the water. This was however the first steep land seen on the west 
coast of the fjord, as the coast from the cape and southward to the 
