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and mainland east of Cape York, but they take on a distinctly 
different form, and the glaciers are much better defined. 
The coast west of Baffin Bay has, where seen, a much 
more wintry aspect than the coast of Greenland in correspond- 
Fic. 2. A series of cliff glaciers on the northeast side of McCormick Bay. The 
line of rock out-crop at the upper limits of the glaciers is but indistinctly shown in the 
figure, but is suggested by the dark line. 
ing latitudes, Melville Bay alone expected. Where the coast is 
low, the ice-cap descends to lower levels on the American side 
of the water than on the Greenland side, leaving a narrower mar- 
gin of land free from ice. This is in harmony with the fact 
already noted that the ice-cap comes nearer the coast on the 
east side of the Island of Disco than on the west side of Nug- 
suak peninsula opposite. It is also in harmony with the further 
