362 Trof. Nordenskiold — Expedition to Greenland. 



extremely interesting to me in a geological point of view. "We 

 passed in fact over ground that had but lately been abandoned 

 by the inland ice, and the whole bore so confusing a resemblance 

 to the woodless gneiss-districts in Sweden and Finland, that even 

 the most sceptical persons would be obliged to admit that the same 

 formative power had impressed its stamp on both localities. Every- 

 where rounded, but seldom scratched, hills of gneiss,' with erratic 

 blocks in the most unstable positions of equilibrium, occur, separated 

 by valleys with small mountain lakes and scratched rock-surfaces. 

 On the other hand, no real moraines were discoverable. These, indeed, 

 seem to be in general absent in Scandinavia, and are generally speak- 

 ing more characteristic of small glaciers than of real inland ice. 



Fig. 1, Fig. 2, and Fig. 3. Inland Ice abutting on Land. 



A. Inland Ice ; B. Solid Kock ; C. Small Collection of Earth at the foot of the Glacier ; D. Lake ; 



E. Separate Block of Ice. 



Fig. 1. 



* For the preservation of a scratched stone surface it is necessary that it should he 



