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them be very marked. After passing the projecting Кар Hold 

 with Hope, the ice-bergs have more room for spreading out, 

 and certainly obtain thereby more freedom of motion; this is 

 the reason for their not remaining any length of time above 

 each individual place and they cannot therefore deposit so much 

 material. Yet even this factor does not seem suffîcient to 

 explain the great difference in the constitution. Here we must 

 then again remember the above mentioned moraine, which, in 

 this locality, must be supposed to form a projection into the 

 sea, caused partly by the greater depth, partly by the greater 

 transport of ice which has taken place from Franz Joseph's 

 Fjord. 



There are moreover variations in the individual samples, as 

 will be seen by the curves. 



The contiguous samples No. 14 and 15 have a rather 

 similar constitution, and are both rather regular and fine. 

 No. 14 contains a number of ingredients over ^/2™™, which are 

 absent in No. 15, and for this no other reason can be ima- 

 gined than that the former deposit is situated nearest the moraine, 

 from which it may have received a few ingredients. Moreover 

 the curve shows that the chief mass of the sample itself is 

 somewhat finer in No. 15 than in No. 14, and that a consider- 

 ably larger amount of clayey substance is found in the former. 

 This is due to the fact that No. 15 was obtained from a con- 

 siderably greater depth so that the finest parts had better 

 opportunities for being deposited. These finest parts must in 

 the case of both the samples have been derived directly 

 from land. 



Sample No. 16 is somewhat coarser than the preceding 

 ones probably because it was formed right outside the Bontekoe 

 0. However it is hardly possible that a direct transport of 

 material from this island can have contributed in any great 

 degree to the formation of the deposit, as the distance is rather 

 great, i. e. about 35 kilom. It is more probable that the island 



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