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If, in this place, we only touch on the basalt type itself, it 

 appears to he very une on Pendulum I., which forms a gently 

 dipping, monotonous plateau. Sabine 1., too, is similarly rather 

 monotonous, although the numerous intercalated beds of Tertiary 

 sandstone in the basalt make its contours softer, and in any 

 case it never assumes the appearance of a true plateau. There 

 are various steep walls and ridges, both towards the sea and to- 

 wards some rather deep valleys, which, however, are not typical 



Fig. 10. Scenery from HaseiiLerg, Sabine 1., to the West (Basalt; Archæan 

 and Jurassic Rocks). (Nordensiijöld phot. 12: 7: 1900.) 



cirques. On the other hand, pointed peaks are entirely lacking; 

 the highest tops only form gently rounded eminences, which 

 rise from the upper part of the mean level wich is always 

 about the same height, whether it be situated in plateaus or 

 ridges. The coast line is tolerably uniform, and Germania 

 Harbour, known from the German wintering, is only a rounded 

 creek, surrounded by low, steep walls, in a low gravel covered 

 basalt plateau , closely recalling a peneplain resulting from 

 supramarine erosion. The picture on fig. 11, also from a pho- 



