THE 
FOURNAL. OF GEOLOGY 
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 18095. 
Shin Ge Ne ND eri DION OE: Suse. 
AFTER an unfortunate delay, the Greenland expedition of 
1895, which was to bring Lieutenant Peary back to America, left 
St. Johns on July 11 in the steamship Azz. _ Instead of heading 
for Cape Desolation, a more northerly route was chosen, which, 
had it been held, would have brought us to the coast of Green- 
land in the vicinity of Frederickshaab. The first stop was to have 
been at the Frederickshaab glacier, but as the land was 
approached the fog was so dense and so persistent that it was 
deemed inadvisable to attempt a landing, and the coast was first 
seen at a point somewhat further north, in latitude 64° 30’ as 
nearly as was determined. This was on July 17. 
Coastal topography and its tnterpretation—The first glimpse 
of the coast was hardly more than momentary, but it was quite 
sufficient to reveal the essential features of the coastal topography. 
Fog shrouded and effectually concealed the lower half of the bold 
land front, but the upper half consisted of a succession of dis- 
tinctly serrate peaks, many of them with slopes so steep that it 
would have been difficult or impossible to scale them. The ser- 
ration was so pronounced as to be most significant, and seemed 
clearly to substantiate the general conclusion at which Professor 
Chamberlin arrived last year, namely, that there were portions of 
the Greenland coast which have not been glaciated in recent time. 
The stretch of coast seen in this latitude was no more than 
ten or fifteen miles in extent. North of this point the coast was 
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