80 EJNAR MIKKELSEN. 
bottom was lined by a long, flat, rounded hill, the height of which did 
not exceed 100 metres. High land could be seen further back inland 
above the hill, and apparently separated from it by a fairly broad 
valley. The hill was broken in one place, apparently by the outlet from 
Fyen’s Lake, and was so covered with snow, that no stones could be seen 
on the slope facing the fjord. 
The east coast of Danmark’s Fjord was bordered by a mountain 
range, which rose steeply from the shore with no flat or low foreland 
between its foot and the water. This range which rose to a height of 
about 300 metres was “Sjælland’s Fjældene”. It consisted of 3 different 
mountain, the southernmost of which was conical, the others being oblong 
in shape. A large mass of fallen stones covered about half of the 
mountain-side, the rest of which was nearly vertical, while the summits 
themselves were apparently quite flat (Fig. 42). 
On entering Danmark’s Fjord we were struck by the absence of tidal 
cracks and thought at first that we were still on a lake, as the 
tide must make some cracks under ordinary circumstances. These we 
did not find, however, until farther on, a little to the south of Sjællands 
Sletten. 
It would thus seem that the ebb and flood must be very small in 
the extreme bottom of Danmark’s Fjord. Possibly the water is so shallow 
that the ice freezes to the bottom; but this does not seem likely, as we 
passed some few pieces of ice frozen into the bay ice and rising some 
5 metres above the surrounding ice, thus demanding a fair amount of 
water for floating into position. 
Cape Holbæk was passed at 1a.m. on May 19th, and the fjord to 
the north opened up immediately after leaving the cape behind us. 
Cape Holbæk was a fairly high, quite isolated mountain, the southern 
and eastern sides of which rose perfectly vertically out of the water to 
а height of about 200—250 metres; the north side, however, was lower 
and gradually sloping. Its western termination seemed quite steep and 
was separated from the mountains further back by the above-mentioned 
broad valley, which ended in a little bight just north of the cape. A 
fairly large river, probably from Fyen’s Lake, runs along the bottom of 
the valley and empties out to the north of the cape, and the Inlandice 
was visible through it to the SW (Fig. 43 & 44). 
The coast to the north of Cape Holbæk became higher (about 300 
metres) but was undulating, being only the foothills of the high moun- 
tains further back, which reached the coast at about 80°56’ N. Lat. 
From there to 81°07’ N., the coast-line was perfectly straight, and the 
unbroken mountain-range rose vertically to a height of about 400— 
500 metres. The face of this mountain-range was so straight, that all 
of it could be seen when viewed from a place not more than % mile 
off shore, and its height was apparently the same all the way. 
The dark basalt wall was broken by three horizontal layers of a 
