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also have contributed a large quantity of the finer material, 

 but this will certainly be of less importance than that derived 

 from the land. 



The sample No. 7 shows a very great resemblance to the 

 last-named; also here is plainly seen the influence of the ice 

 in the extension of the curve to the right. Moreover the curve 

 shows very distinctly, that this sample has been obtained from 

 nearer the shore, as the greater number of the grains attain 

 a size of about V2o'^™, viz. about double the size of those in 

 No. 4, besides the main part of the curve has a rather regular 

 shape, and thus suggests a like cause of deposition. 



The samples No. 9 — 13, obtained in a continuous series 

 from the coast between Кар Borlase Warren and Rap 

 Broer Ruys, are characteristic as being some of coarsest of 

 all the samples. The curves are all very irregular, but have 

 two rather distinct maxima of which the one is situated far to 

 the right among the coarsest ingredients. The depth of depo- 

 sition is not very great in any of the samples , as it varies 

 from 78 to 114 Danish fathoms. The distance from shore is 

 however so great that the coarser ingredients can hardly have 

 emanated directly from there. Were this so the ingredients 

 must consist entirely of basalt which is far from being the 

 case, seeing that they have a very mixed constitution. For 

 the same reason we cannot well imagine that they have origi- 

 nated from rocks at the bottom of the sea. Then there only 

 remains, as in the samples 1 — 3, the choice between the 

 floating-ice and moraine-formations, and here the mineralogicai 

 constitution cannot decide the question, as we must expect a 

 mixture of granitic, basaltic, and sedimentary material, such as 

 is found in these samples both from the icebergs of the far 

 north, and from the land-ice. 



It is not at all probable that icebergs have conveyed the 

 enormous amount of coarse material in these samples, as 

 there is nothing to account for their having such great influence 



