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and beyond the mouth of the bay called "Komiadluarsuk," 

 a remarkable headland rises from the water. This is a 

 ridge some two miles long and persistently about three 

 hundred feet high. The sky-line is serrate, and the fisher- 

 men call the ridge "Razorback." The rocks of the lower 

 cliffs (specially steep at the east end) are red ; those higher 



FIG. 5. WESTEKN ENTRANCE TO GKENFELL TICKLE 



1. Chidley Island; 2. Mt. Sir Donald; 3. Western entrance to Grenfell Tickle; 

 4. Tunusaksak Bay. 



up grow darker until, at the top, the ridge is almost black. 

 Its various peculiarities make the ridge a fine landmark. 

 "Razorback" lies just north of the entrance to the next 

 fiord, that called Ryan's Bay. This one has not been ex- 

 plored by schooners. There is good anchorage on the north 

 side, just beyond a great rampart of dark rock which runs 

 southerly, at right angles to the ridge just described. On 

 this side of the fiord there is a notable beach of sand, one 

 of the very few sand beaches on the coast. It is a com- 

 pound beach, being made up of successive terraces of sand, 

 each terrace marking an old level of the sea; the whole 

 forms the clearest evidence of the recent emergence of the 

 coast border from beneath the sea. There are numerous 



