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Nansen from SE. Greenland, and 

 which are adduced by him as a proof 

 that the parts have never been covered 

 by inland ice. Whether this inter- 

 pretation is right, or whether we 

 must be content to assume that the 

 period that has passed since a pre- 

 sumable ice-cover retired was suffi- 

 ciently long for the tops to be chis- 

 elled out, is a question to which I 

 may possibly return elsewhere. 



In contrast to the parts here 

 described stands the type of land- 

 scape which one finds on the S. side 

 of the same Liverpool Peninsula. 

 Here the whole country is lower 

 and at the same time all the hills 

 are rounded, approximating to the 

 other Nansen type, just mentioned. 

 Already on the SE. coast we have 

 an interesting configuration in the 

 contrast between the level, rounded 

 plateau land and a very steep dip 

 towards the sea, quite typically mar- 

 ked, pretty much as is common in 

 the fjord districts of the W. coast 

 of Greenland as described by v. 

 Drygalski^). Where any peaks 

 rise above the average level, they 

 are gentle, much as those in the 

 N. , in the sandstone territory. A 

 few large, broad corries descend 

 right down to the sea-level, filled 

 *) Grönland-Expedition, I, 45. 



