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rocks give rise to a particularly interesting and varied topo- 

 graphy. In our description we will, for the present, omit Ja- 

 meson Land with its Jurassic formations covered with Quaternary 

 strata, and proceed to deal with these parts that were visited 

 by the Expedition, viz. Fleming Inlet, Davy Sund and its south- 

 ernmost fork (Forsblads Fjord). The variation in the age of 

 the rocks is thus reduced; all the rocks may now be classed 

 as Paleozoic or Triassic. 



All the interior of this part of Greenland, at and inside 

 the inmost fjords, is made up of a more or less connected 

 plateau. To encounter these plateau types one must retire a 

 long way from the coast line in the Archaean rock areas, while 

 the more pronounced the horizontal stratification or banking of 

 the rock is, the sooner we come across them: thus, in the 

 inmost parts of Fleming Inlet with its Mesozoic strata, and 

 still more plainly in Jameson Land, which already forms a true 

 plateau near Hurry Inlet. 



Along the extreme outer] strip of coast, however, it is just 

 these loose sedimentary rocks, on a large as on a small scale, 

 that show an exceptionally rich variation and strong splitting 

 up in a topographical respect. To understand the connection 

 between these two extreme types it is best to start from some 

 of the intermediate forms that stamp the character along the 

 main extension of the shores of the fjords. 



In this case we can find two types. In Fleming Inlet there 

 is a series of gentle mountains, rising in terrace-like plateaus 

 according to the hardness of the various banks of rock; through 

 the often considerable thickness of these banks the type is 

 well distinguished from the basalt rocks. The peaks that rise 

 above the mean level are, as a rule, flat pyramid shaped. The 

 valleys here are not entirely fjord-like, not even the very con- 

 siderable Örsted Valley, which however I did not get a chance 

 of examining closely. They are certainly often eroded down 

 deep, but are short and broad, probably emptied glacier valleys, 



