THE GREENLAND EXPEDITION OF 1805. gol 
The most conspicuous terraces seen were in the vicinity of 
Littleton Island, in latitude about 78° 30’. Here on the main- 
land coast, there is a notable series of terraces, at least three in 
number, which seemed clearly to have been fashioned by the 
waves. Opportunity was not afforded for their measurement, 
but the highest could hardly have been less than 300 or 400 feet. 
It will be seen that the points where positive evidence of 
recent rise was found are distributed in latitude between 76° 35’ 
and 78° 30’, a stretch of something like 120 miles; but within 
this distance there seemed to be complete absence of evidence 
of recent submergence at most points. If one may trust topo- 
graphic evidence, and such evidence as interrupted study on the 
shores themselves furnished, it would be as rational to conclude 
that the coast through this region has risen at certain points, 
while others have remained stationary or have subsided, as to 
conclude that it has risen at all points because it has risen at 
some. It is not believed, however, that anything less than an 
uninterrupted study of the coast through long stretches will afford 
positive evidence concerning the point in question, and the 
absence of topographic evidence of recent elevation at many 
points is therefore not interpreted as necessarily meaning absence 
of recent elevation at those points. 
On the American coast a somewhat similar condition of things 
exists. On Smith Island, in Jones Sound, there is positive 
evidence of recent elevation to the extent of fifty feet, and less 
satisfactory evidence of a much more considerable rise. South 
of Jones Sound a horizontal element in the coastal front is often 
wanting, though sometimes present. It was somewhat conspic- 
uous on Philpot Island, latitude 75°, though no landing was made . 
at this point, and the significance of the horizontal element was 
therefore not determined. Suggestions of terraces were also 
observed at some points on Bylot Island. At Dexterity Harbor, 
about 72°, opportunity was afforded for more careful examina- 
tion of the evidence bearing on this question, and here there was 
positive evidence of recent elevation to the extent of something 
like 480 feet, aneroid measurement. Beaches and flats of limited 
