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enclosed by steep cliffs, and there is deep water close in to these at 

 most places. At the end the lake ends in a glacier which comes 

 down from the inland ice behind. Small rivers fall into the lake 

 here and there, but still more numerous and more extensive are 

 the dried-up river beds, just as everywhere in North-East Greenland. 

 About halfway along the north side of the lake there is a river 



Fig. 1. Map of "Sælsoen " and "Annekssoen". 



which now only fills a small part of its large bed; it comes from 

 the more northerly lake "Annekssøen", which has a breadth of ca. 1 

 mile and cuts through the land ("Germania Land") in a S. E.— N. W. 

 direction for a distance of ca. 20 miles and reaches almost into the 

 inland ice to the north of Sælsoen. The most southerly bank of 

 Annekssoen (at the outlet) is also formed of extensive clay plains 

 and gravel ridges, while higher up it is enclosed by high hills with 

 rough moraine ground in front in the form of slopes, which grade 



