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of the glacier entering the head of Torsukatak fjord was seen— 
as well as the ice-cap behind it. Further north, during the pas- 
sage of the Waigat, the local ice-cap of the Nugsuak peninsula 
was now and then sighted, though it sends no glaciers of 
importance to the southwest. 
With the west coast of the Nugsuak peninsula the east coast 
of Disco is in striking contrast. On the latter the ice-cap very 
commonly reaches the edge of the upland, and nourishes 
numerous small glaciers which descend the slope some hundreds 
of feet. 
Between the north end of the Nugsuak peninsula (lat. 70° 
45’) and 74° 30’ the main ice-cap was rarely, if ever, seen. If 
the published charts be correct, this must have been due to the 
very considerable number of ice-free islands which lie off the 
coast, and hide the front of the mainland. That the ice-cap or 
at least huge glaciers from it reach the coast in very consider- 
able numbers in this region, is demonstrated by the fact that 
large numbers of bergs take their origin from the coast in these 
latitudes. The local ice-cap of the Svartenhuk peninsula (lat. 
71° 30’) was seen at several points. 
The glaciers seen on Disco Island, and on the west coast of 
Greenland south of Melville Bay, do not depart from the usual 
type of alpine glacier, so far as general form and relations are 
concerned. Some of them—as the Jakobshavn glacier—are 
much larger than the usual alpine type, but they lack the pecu- 
liar characteristics which seem to mark the glaciers of the higher 
latitudes of west Greenland. 
The north shore of Melville Bay was not seen except for 
twenty-five or thirty miles east of Cape York, where the coast 
line is very largely made up of ice. This ice is mainly in the 
form of glaciers—as distinct from ice-cap—but they are wide, 
often confluent, and, where distinct, are frequently separated by 
no more than trivial areas of land. 
It was characteristic of all the glaciers seen along Melville 
Bay that their gradients were low; that their surfaces were rela- 
tively smooth and free from débris; that their centers were 
