GLACIAL STUDIES IN GREENLAND. 66 I 



"red snow," protococcus nivalis, and in part to red lichens, and 

 not to the hue of the rock) I noted eleven glaciers, or glacial 

 lobes, coming down from ice caps whose heights did not 

 exceed three thousand feet. A few miles beyond lies the Peto- 

 wik glacier, about seven miles wide. It descends by a gentle 

 inclination from the inland ice, its course being unusually direct, 

 and its surface smooth and unruptured by crevasses. In general 



Fig. 3. Contrasted Topographies. No. I. — Dalrymple Rock, near the Greenland 

 coast at the mouth of Wolstenholme Sound, about 77 ° N. Lat. Formed of horn- 

 blendic gneiss. Illustration of angular outlines. 



habits and relations, it resembles the great Frederickshaab glacier, 

 but it is smoother, less massive, and much less impressive. 



On the morning of the 24th we were off the mouth of Wol- 

 stenholme Sound. A landing was made at Dalrymple Island, 

 one of the notable nesting haunts of the eider duck. While the 

 hunters of our party made a generous addition to our provisions, 

 I secured an excellent set of specimens from the finely foliated 

 series of hornblendic gneisses that form the island. Saunders 

 Island, which lies not far to the north, was an interesting object, 



