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and as there is here no stream of any importance, there is no 

 deposition of layers, but a demolition is going on of formerly 

 deposited sediment. Along Jameson Land the current runs at 

 ebbing tides off-shore (southwards), carries along the enormous 

 sand masses from the streams of Klitdalen, and deposits them 

 northernmost along the western side as big sand flats. 



Just opposite to the Fame Islands the coast bluff 

 of Liverpool Land is 20 — 25 m high and inclines abt. 30° 

 towards the horizon. It consists of sand, sandy clay, and gravel 

 with boulders of up to the size of a hand. At the top, and in 

 the nearest vicinity of the sea, it is completely vertical ; it is 

 evidently an old marine terrace (which is also suggested by 

 spare shell-fragments) formed by materials from névé-brooks 

 at a time when the Liverpool Land was covered by the inland- 

 ice. Outside the beach a new terrace is forming all the way 

 towards the Fame Islands; there is from 20 to 50cm water 

 upon it. 



The bluff towards the sea is sparely covered with Chamae- 

 nerium latifolium, Braya purpurascens, Lesquerella arctica, and 

 down-slidden parts of the vegetation of the surface. 



The surface of the terrace is a stony plain, densely paved 

 with little flat boulders and with a thin clayey coating between 

 the stones. Sand drift is not found. It is sparely covered 

 with low specimens of: Dryas octopetala f. minor and ^'integri- 

 folia, Erigeron uniflorus, Polygonum viviparum f. alpina, Salix 

 arctica f. groenlandica, Elyna BeUardi, Carex nardina, Foa 

 glauca, together with the following lichens: Cetraria nivalis, 

 C. islandica v. crispa, Farmelia saxatilis, Psora atrorufa, 

 Stereocaidon denudatum v. pidvinatum, Xanthoria vitellina, 

 Urceolaria scruposa etc. 



The distinctly tuftshaped individuals are much eroded, it 



being not, however, possible to show any precisely marked 



direction of the wind. Two Erigeron uniflorus-luüs, which grew 



hardly 25 cm apart from each other, were injuriously affected, 



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