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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 
Fie. 5. Wee ENTRANCE TO GRENFELL 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 
