GIWACIUAIL, SINTVIDINES JON] GREENLAND. _ III. 
Coast GLACIERS BETWEEN Disco ISLAND AND INGLEFIELD GULF. 
From the southern extremity of Greenland to the vicinity of 
Upernivik the ice-cap lies so far inland as to be but rarely and 
imperfectly seen from a coasting vessel. Here and there it forms 
the sky line between the mountains, and at intervals tongues 
push down the valleys to the inner coast line, but only such frag- 
mentary views are offered to the passer-by. Even for a degree 
and a half beyond Upernivik, little may be seen of the interior 
ice-field, though nothing but a coastal fringe of islands inter- 
venes. The Devil’s Thumb, that grewsome landmark of the 
navigator, which stands over against the dreaded ice pack of 
Melville Bay, must be passed before the border of the great ice- 
field comes fairly into view. 
It may be recalled that from Cape Farewell to the Devil’s 
Thumb the coast has a mountainous aspect interrupted at intervals 
by lower tracts of fluent contours. Its general expression is 
harsh and rugged. Patches of snow and local glaciers give it 
an Arctic aspect; still it is more nearly ice-free land than-an ice- 
field. It is a black-and-white border to the great white interior. 
Near Upernivik this border becomes reduced to a fringe of 
mountainous islands. These disappear near Lat. 74° 30’, and 
the great ice cap comes out to the coast and by its precipitous 
ice-walls forms the sea border. The Devil’s Thumb, situated on 
one of the most northern of these bordering islands, becomes the 
sentinel of the transition from the one type of coast to the other. 
It is a columnar monument of rectangular aspect surmounted by 
a more slender column, not altogether unlike the combination of 
the Auditorium: tower, if a local comparison may be permitted. 
A resemblance to his majesty’s opposable digit would never have 
occurred to me, but this may be due to a lack of personal 
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