136 THE OCEAN. 



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To the soutli of the Adriatic and the Archipelago on the coast-line 

 of warm or torrid countries no more fjords are seen. To find a 

 similar formation of shores we must traverse the entire continent of 

 America to its southern extremity. The fjords only commence be- 

 yond the uniform coast-line of Chili, with the Island of Chiloe, its 

 numerous bays, and the network of straits in the Archipelago of 

 Magellan and Terra del Fuego. This is the only region in the 

 southern hemisphere where the astonishing phenomenon of tortuous 

 and deep valleys filled by the waters of the sea is witnessed. As to 

 the countries of the Antarctic continent, no indentations can be re- 

 cognized in them, since the contours of the bays and capes, the 

 gulfs and peninsulas, are all filled by the snouts of glaciers and by 

 continuous ice-fields. 



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