GEACIAL STUDIES IN GREENLAND. Com 
inland ice. These glaciers, however, occupy only a small frac- 
tion of the coast, the greater portion of which is ice-free land. It 
differs from that of South Greenland in the important fact that it 
is a plateau border and not mountainous. The clastic rocks are 
rounded into soft contours, whether by long exposure to meteoric 
agencies or to glacial action is not evident at a distance, and need 
not be considered here, as this brings us to the entrance to Ingle- 
field Gulf, where a closer examination will be possible. 
This running sketch of passing observations has brought 
into imperfect view the various coastal types of West Greenland ; 
rugged serrate mountains; rounded sub-mountainous tracts ; 
coast-island fringes; ice-fields ending in sea cliffs; ice-fields 
struggling with mountainous protrusions ; rock-walls capped with 
nevé and traversed by “hanging” glaciers; and plateaus of soft- 
ened outline, surmounted by ice-fields whose tongues creep down 
wide and less steep valleys. 
T. C. CHAMBERLIN. 
