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was not so much the number, nor the size, as the variety and 

 picturesque beauty, that commanded admiration. The Jacobs- 

 haven icebergs are noted for their pinnacled and angulated 

 forms. It is even held by Greenlanders that they may be dis- 

 tinguished from the bergs of other glaciers by their distinctive 

 forms. From what I saw, I should think this measurably true. 

 Early on July 16th, we arrived at Godhaven, on the south side 

 of Disco Island, and, after the customary formalities of entrance 

 to a Greenland port, visited the lower glacier in Blase Dale, 



Fig. 1. Iceberg off the Crimson Cliffs, northern part of Baffin's Bay. Character- 

 istic floe-ice of the region in the foreground. 



which creeps down from a local ice cap covering the southwest- 

 ern uplands of the island. This glacier was again visited on our 

 return, forty-eight days later, and this constitutes the longest 

 interval afforded me for the study of seasonal effects on the sur- 

 face of the same glacier. Disco Bay was found thickly dotted 

 with Jacobshaven icebergs, and presented a most enchanting 

 picture, set off, as the picturesque ice masses were, by a calm, 

 blue sky, a clear, genial atmosphere, and the red-brown cliffs of 

 Disco Island. While at Godhaven we were fortunate enough to 

 secure specimens of the famous "Ovifak" iron. 



Leaving Godhaven on the evening of July 17th, we skirted 

 the west coast of the island, and on the afternoon of the iSth 



