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The sand was frozen in a depth of 64 cm and in a pro- 

 file on the eastside, formed by a half dried up river-bed, ice 

 was seen in a depth of 50 cm below the surface. I suppose 

 the dune receives its increase in the autumn in the shape of 

 a mixture of snow and sand, which thaws during the summer 

 and dries up until the stated depth where the melting-water 

 freezes together to solid ice. (A similar snow-and sanddrift 

 I noticed in 1898 at Tasiusarsik kidtlek near Angmagsalik). 

 At the base of the kiln was found, by the above-named little, 

 somewhat mossgrown, river-bed, a small humid sandy flat 

 covered with Equisetum arvense f. decumbens, Lachnea scutel- 

 lata and, at the margin, little tufts of Eriophorum Scheuchzeri 

 together with, on a small elevation, a single Salix arctica v. 

 groenlandica bush. 



To the east of the little river-bed were extensive, almost 

 horizontal flats, which, in my journal, I call "Graa Kiit"; 

 the soil consists of stoneless, very fine argillaceous sand, which 

 cracks in the summer drought. 



They were covered with Arctostayhylos alpina^ Dryas 

 octopetala f. minor, Salix arctica f., Elyna Bellardi and Carex 

 nardina. None of these plants rises 5 cm above the ground, 

 most often they are covered so strongly that only a few short 

 stem-joints together with their leaves are free; in many cases, 

 indeed, the petioles themselves are covered. None was seen in 

 flower, nor were there any traces of fruit-setting from previous 

 years. They evidently wage a hard war against the dust covering 

 and erosions of winter, all parts above ground being, as I believe, 

 eaten away every year (fig. 16). 



Near these flats are others, which I designate by the name 

 of "Stensletter" ("stony plains", see A. Jessen in "Danmarks 

 Geologiske Undersøgelse" I R., Nr. 3, p. 2ö3). 



These are plane or slightly undulating, almost horizontal, 

 flats made up of sand, argillaceous sand, in spots, gravel with 

 shells of sea mollusca, accordingly parts of a marine terrace. 



