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snow-avalanche (snefond) type, while the plateaus up above between the 

 several fjords, as well as the deep valleys, are covered by not very thick 

 ice-caps, or stationary neves, which are not yet sufficiently developed to 

 feed glacier-tongues. West of a line drawn from the head of Buffalo Fjord 

 (Boffelfjord), past the head of Coal Fjord (Kulfjord), east of Turn-again Fjord, 

 and so up to the summit of the pass that connects Flagler fjord with Bay's 

 Fjord, all the lower-lying lands are free from snow in the summer. The 

 only exceptions are a few glaciated snow avalanches at Hell Gate. 



But although glaciation in the proper sense of the term may be said 

 to cease on the west coast of Ellesmere Land, it appears again on Heiberg 

 Land, in the vicinity of Glaciers Fjord, Wolf Fjord, and Skaare Fjord. 

 This is accounted for, as indeed all glaciation is, by the climatological 

 relations considered in connection with the configuration of the country. 

 The narrow and crowded folds between the lofty plateau ridges (fjelde) 

 form so many sheltered collecting-basins for the precipitation brought by 

 the south winds, as well as for the drift winds that blow from the north. 

 These last play a great part in the distribution of the snow, both locally 

 and generally." 



Printed 6 Nov. 1917. 



