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the following day we drove on this down the valley, but only for a 

 couple of miles, which was the extent of its length. The ice on it 

 was about to break up. 



' We encamped and rambled about the whole of that night on 

 the north side of the fjord. The land hereabouts was more broken 

 than on the south side, where the sides of the valley had a natural 

 decline from the wastes. It only consisted, however, of com- 

 paratively low mountains and ridges. We walked for ten or 

 eleven miles in a north-westerly direction, and, as far as we could 

 see, there was no "inland-ice" west of the northernmost of the 

 three glaciers which I have already mentioned. 



'The next night we walked about ten miles up on the 

 wastes on the other side of the valley. These were situated, 

 I should say, some 300 to 400 feet above sea-level, and were 

 probably an old coast-terrace ; a surmise which is strengthened 

 by the fact that we found there a considerable quantity of drift- 

 wood. Unfortunately accurate measurement of its height was in 

 the circumstances impossible, nor could I determine the height 

 of the sea-boundary, as on the bare land we were not higher 

 than the level of the waste. Braskerudfly was about ten miles 

 broad, and extended on the east side of the range of mountains as 

 far as the eye could see. The material was sand and grit. Here 

 and there was a little lake ; in one of which we saw four gulls, 

 probably glaucous gulls (Larus glaucus). 



' The bed-rock, which projected in places, consisted, according to 

 Herr Schei's determination of the specimens which we brought back 

 with us, of " finely clodded limestone conglomerate, which, how- 

 ever, does not resemble any of the kinds of rock peculiar to Bache 

 Peninsula and Princess Marie Bay. This circumstance would seem 

 to point to the fact that other and younger formation divisions appear 

 here than in the before-mentioned tracts." This was, of course, 

 the composition of the rock on the other side of the fjord valley. 



' In the middle of the waste, in the same direction as the 

 chain of mountains, ran a series of crags, 300 to 600 feet above the 

 level of the waste, while closer to the chain ran yet another series, 

 larger in size and at smaller intervals than the others. The outlines 

 of the fjord were somewhat broken, and several low points of land 

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