Liverpool Kyst, rather near land. As their situation is 

 much alike with regard to the coast, they might be expected 

 to be of similar consistency and yet they are so different, as to 

 have scarcely any feature in common ; they will therefore be 

 treated below separately. 



No. 27 is rather fine as compared with the rest of these 

 samples, and the curve shows a very smooth, and symmetrical 

 shape with the exception of a smaller independent part with 

 maximum between 2 and A^^ which was probably derived from 

 icebergs. The rest must have been derived directly from land, 

 and cannot have been conveyed very far, presumably it came 

 from the land near Murray 0. 



No. 29 has quite a different appearance from the last named. 

 The curve is of a specially irregular shape, and the great number 

 of sandy and pebbly ingredients is most conspicuous, while very 

 few clayey ones are found. The circumstance that the sam- 

 ples are situated at a comparatively slight depth, 128 Danish 

 fathoms, is presumably a suffifcient explanation of the finer 

 ingredients being so few in number; probably the current is 

 so strong that deposition cannot take place. If, however, we 

 want to account for the existence of so large a proportion 

 of coarser ingredients the case will be different; they are too 

 large to have been conveyed direct from land, and must there- 

 fore have had their origin in one of the three factors: icebergs, 

 morainic formations at the bottom of the sea, or solid rocks 

 from this same place. 



To determine which of the three factors has been the 

 most important is rather difficult. It is not likely that the ice 

 has had any great influence. There is no special reason for 

 supposing that ice can have conveyed such enormous quantities 

 of material to this locality, and to others which will be men- 

 tioned below, seeing that its influence otherwise seems to be 

 somewhat sh'ght Moreover the adjacent samples No. 27 and 

 30, have either no coarser particles, or only a very insigni- 



