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5. Action of Sea-Ice 48 



6. Eise and Fall of the Greenland Coast .. .. 50 



Eise 50 



Fall 52 



7. Application of the facts regarding Arctic Ice- 



action as explanatory of Glaciation and 

 other Ice Eemains in Britain 54 



8. On the Formation of Fjords 58 



Glaciers and Fjords 61 



Grinding-power of Glaciers 62 



Filling-lip of Fjords 64 



The Walls of Fjords »_ .. .. 66 



Volcanic Theory of the Formation of Fjords . . 67 



Bainsay, Dana, Geikie, and Murphy, on Fjords . . 68 



9. The Northern Termination of Greenland .. 70 



10. Debateable Eoints regarding the Ehysical 



Structure of Greenland 73 



II. On the Best Means of beaching the Pole. By 



Admiral Baron von Wrangell 75 



III. On the Discoveries of Dr. Kane, U.S.A. (1853-55). 



By Dr. Eink 80 



IV. The Arctic Current around Greenland. By 



Admiral C. Irminger, of the Danish Navy . . 97 



V. Notes on the State of the Ice, and on the Indi- 

 cations of Open Water from Behring Strait 

 to Bellot Strait, along the Coasts of Arctic 

 America and Siberia, including the Accounts 

 of Anjou and Wrangell. By Vice-Admiral E. 



COLLINSON, C.B. 



Introduction 105 



1. Behring Straits 106 



Eussian Expeditions east of the Eiver Kolyma 108 



Baron Wrangell's Eemarks 112 



Kotzebue 112 



Lutke .. 113 



Voyage of the Blossom 113 



Expeditions in Search of Sir John Franklin . . 114 



The Herald 114 



The Plover 115 



