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with the rounded forms of "roches moutonnées", with typical 

 lee-side to the W., and partly covered with débris formed by 

 disintegration of the rock in place, partly with true, somewhat 

 washedJ|out moraine-débris, whose connection with the ice- 

 masses soon to be met with in the E. is apparent. The "hillocks" 

 themselves attain a height of 50 m or more above the level of 

 the plateau. 



The foreland that is shown on fig. 8 and which may also be seen 



Fig. 9. The coast of Liverpool Land opposite tlie Fame 1. Young deposits 



of clay and sand, in the middle of the bluff shell-bearing. 



(Nordenskjold phot.) 



on the painting PI. X, passes over gradually to the W. into 3) the 

 true shore-land, a zone of a breadth of up to a few km, where 

 solid rock either does not appear at all or only in the deeper cuttings, 

 while for the rest the ground is chiefly composed of rounded 

 gravel and sand. The latter sometimes forms perpendicular walls 

 facing the sea, rising to 25 m in height; in this sand, at a 

 height of 10 m and right opposite Fame Islands, Hartz found 

 clayey intervening layers with shells of Mya and other genera 

 (cfr. fig. 9). Beginning on the precipice we come across an 



