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even gravel terrace, 20 — 40 m above the sea. Above this ter- 

 race there rise in many places, especially as one proceeds in- 

 land, numerous more or less irregular, often steep ridges or 

 banks, rising to a height of 30—40 m or more above their 

 surroundings. These long banks, which occur especially at the 

 NE. corner of Hurry Inlet, often misleadingly recall moraines; 

 however, they consist of gravel composed of local rocks, and 

 large blocks are lacking. They are presumably a kind of river 

 terraces; at the same time it must be observed that real mo- 

 raine ridges seem to occur under similar conditions, especially 

 further south. A characteristic view of the surface of this 

 shore-land is given on the picture pi. XIII. 



That harbours and bays are lacking on this coast depends 

 exclusively on the presence of this area of deposition, the 

 reverse of the usual denudation areas on such coasts. For the 

 highland itself is interspersed with transverse valleys, vvhose 

 fjord-type is unmistakable, and which are clearly distinguished 

 from the usual steeply sloping valleys of river erosion, which 

 latter are numerous here also. I have visited two of these 

 valleys, viz. one opposite Fame Islands ("Kalkdalen", or "Lime- 

 stone Valley", the same valley in which the dikes and masses 

 of monchiquile rocks were found), and the southernmore of 

 the two valleys situated about half way up the fjord, the glacier 

 valleys that are plainly marked on the maps. The former^) 

 continues about ô km in a N. 40° E. direction, the same 

 direction in which one of the here prominent systems of joints 

 runs; broadly speaking, however, it is more or less "S" shaped. 

 At the mouth itself, where it meets the shore terrace, the 

 valley is shut off by a rocky wall, through which the river has 

 made its way in a narrow canyon, over 10 metres in depth. 

 We have here an exceptionally fine example of a barrier of a 

 true rock-basin, now changed into a supra-marine fjord valley, 



') Koch's map, which shows the mouth of the river, unfortunately gives 

 us no idea of the topography of this area in detail. 



