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THE OCEAN. 



shudder that one penetrates into this gloomy defile, where the 

 ancients would doubtless have seen the entrance to the infernal re- 

 gions. 



The islands of Spitzbergen, Faroe, and Shetland present also in 

 their outline hundreds of fjords, like those of Scandinavia. The 

 coasts of Iceland, Labrador, and western Greenland, those of the 

 islands of the Polar Archipelago, and finally the American coast-line 

 of the Pacific, from the long peninsula of Alaska to the labyrinth of 

 Vancouver's Islands, are no less rich in indentations than the coast- 

 line of Norway. The shares of Scotland are deeply cut in the 

 same way, but only on the western side, where there are besides 

 numerous islands reproducing in miniature the maze of promontories 

 and bays of the mainland. That part of Ireland turned towards the open 



Fig. 50.— Mouths of Cattaro. 



sea develops itself also into a succession of rocky peninsulas, separated 

 by narrow gulfs ; but to the south and east the coasts of the British 



