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extension can be established, and the most of these points were 

 not visited by the members of the recent expedition, nor were 

 comparable heights of like situation near the coast line studied. 

 Sanderson's Hope is charted as 3467 feet; a point on Svarten 

 Huk peninsula, as 5230; a point on Disco Island as 51 10, and 

 many other points range from 3000 feet upwards. At most, 

 therefore, the differences between us are merely matters of 

 minor detail so far as observational determinations are con- 

 cerned. 



This advance of 30 to 60 miles seemed to one party to call 

 for expressions of amplitude, to the other, instinctively making 

 comparison with the many hundreds of miles of ice invasion of 

 the mainland, to call for diminutives. Here is, indeed, a wide 

 psychological difference, and we can contribute nothing to mini- 

 mize this difference. Under the widest permissible interpreta- 

 tion of the facts as seen by either party the advance seems to us 

 emphatically small, and very significant in its smallness. 



The reliefs of the region seemed to the earlier party to 

 belong to the semi-subdued type. The later party appear to 

 have supposed them to represent the imsiibdued type of the ear- 

 lier party. The determinations of the later party are, however, 

 in close accord with the classification of the earlier party. 



It is possible that Professors Tarr and Barton unconsciously 

 transferred to this region our rather emphatic descriptions of 

 certain markedly serrate tracts farther south, and of certain 

 ragged islands lying to the north, e.g., Dalrymple Island (figured 

 in this Journal, Vol. II, p. 661), and Cone Island (Fig. i.. Vol. 

 III., p. 772). As indicated above, we did not class the topog- 

 raphy of the region in question under the markedly ragged 

 and serrate type but under an intermediate one of partial sub- 

 jugation. The figures referred to illustrate our standard of the 

 former class. The courteous suggestion that the differences of 

 interpretation were due to our point of view on the leeside of 

 the prominences is inapplicable to the important case of Disco 

 Island, for Professor Salisbury passed on the stoss side. It is 

 only measurably applicable to the rest of the territory, as the 



