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Western and southern coasts of 

 Jameson Land (Chr. Kruuse). 



On Aug. 15^'^ Koch, Nordenskjold and Krüdse left in the 

 walrus boat in order to explore and map down the southern 

 and western coasts of Jameson Land. As mentioned by Koch 

 (Med. 0. Grl. XXVil, p. 285) this coast is low and flat, formed by 

 marine clay and sand without solid rock. The margin of the 

 sea consists of fine sand, upon which is found washed up sea- 

 weed mixed with sticks and leaves together with, rarely, a 

 more considerable floating timber (see picture Koch 1. с p. 

 284) ; they form 1 — 3 strand lines. — A special strand vege- 

 tation is completely wanting. Inside the margin of the sea 

 the land stands with rather steep bluffs, 2 — 6 metres high. 

 Outside the margin of the sea is a broad flat (100 — 3000 me- 

 tres), which is partially dry at low water and ends towards the 

 inlet in a steep slope. There is 10— 40 cm water upon it, 

 the bottom is fine sand or, at places, mud; it is completely 

 bare of vegetation. 



Towards east and north-east the land rises evenly and 

 slowly; it is nearly flat, but at rare intervals traversed by nu- 

 merous brooks and streams, which have beds of 20 — 30 me- 

 tres' depth in the loose bottom. By the coast they form river- 

 cones ; but a few of them, especially those abunding with 

 water, ended in a little triangular lagoon, bordered towards 

 the inlet by a convex coast-bank. 



The country, by the way, corresponds well to the description 

 which Hartz has given of its southern part (Med. o. Grl. XVIII, 

 p. 124 — 132). I shall therefore only briefly mention the locali- 

 ties we visited, the more because bad weather and the difficul- 

 ties in landing greatly limited the time we could give to the 

 exploration. 



By the landing place, on Aug. 16^^^ close to the 7P* parallel 

 of latitude ran parallel to the coast an about 10 metres high 



