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causes sandy particles to be washed into the sea in propor- 

 tionately large numbers, and partly to the slight depth at which 

 deposition took place. This in conjunction with the current 

 prevents the clay which has been washed into the water from 

 having any chance of being deposited. The pebbles in the 

 sample have been derived almost exclusively from the rocks at 

 the bottom of the sea, as is also seen by their very uniform 

 petrologicai nature, 70 out of 74 consisting of granite or 

 gneiss. This circumstance entirely excludes the possibility of 

 transport by icebergs, and also makes it very improbable that 

 moraines at the bottom of the sea can have had any great in- 

 fluence. It is not likely that moraines formed in this locality 

 so near the mouth of Scoresby Sund would contain so 

 homogeneous a collection of rock-fragments. 



The samples No. 34 — 36 were obtained outside the mouth 

 of Scoresby Sund in rather deep water. It might therefore 

 be expected that their constitution would somewhat resemble that 

 of No. 24, found at the same depth outside the mouth of Davys 

 Sund. There is however a very great difference, for No. 24, 

 as has been shown, was the finest of all the samples, while 

 those mentioned here are rather coarse, and contain great quan- 

 tities both of sandy and of pebbly ingredients. The former 

 ingredients are probably due to the closer proximity of land, 

 and especially to the circumstance that the three deposits are 

 so situated at the southern end of the Liverpool Kyst, 

 that a strong southward current would transport material from 

 the land directly to the three localities. The material thus 

 transported will be sorted according to size, and the curves also 

 show that No. 34 contains far less of the finer ingredients than 

 the other two. Of these No. 36 contains somewhat less fine 

 material than No. 35, probably owing to the fact that the first- 

 named of these samples was obtained somewhat nearer land on 

 the southern side of Scoresby Sund. 



With regard to the coarser ingredients of these three 



