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with lateral valleys which end somewhat abruptly, but so that 

 the innermost gorges are more angular and relatively more 

 broad at the top than usual in the corries. If there were really 

 corries here once, their shape has been partly destroyed. The 

 numerous minor valleys are wild and deep, with sheer slopes 

 and end in narrow clefts, of the true mountain river type. A 

 dissimilarity to the tjords in harder rocks arises in territories 

 such as these already by reason of the sides of the valleys not 

 being rounded off, but being either more gently sloping, or, owing 

 to breaking up through erosion and abrasion, angular or even 

 precipitous, which is easily explained by the nature of the rock 

 itself. A very narrow foreland outside the coast-steep is usu- 

 ally present; before every river it widens considerably owing 

 to the masses of gravel carried down. 



The gentle impression made by this coast is most closely 

 connected with the uniform nature of the rock, which is without 

 any specially hard or divergent strata. We come across a very 

 different character at Davy Sund. On the S. side rise the high 

 Pietet Mountains; the country in front of them is comparatively 

 low and gentle. In the N., on Trail 1. the country is similarly 

 soft, though the shores are steep and somewhat wall-like, and 

 also the smaller crevices are deep, while the larger valleys are 

 broad and end in gently sloping cirques. Not until we ap- 

 proach "Drömbukten" do the valleys become more and more 

 important and at the same time closer to one another; they 

 almost go down to the base-level, and the crest tliat distinguishes 

 them from their closest matches is often low. What once existed 

 of a plateau-form is now quite destroyed. 



In this region four different areas may be distinguished, 

 which we will briefly characterize. 



Traill Island consists of isolated rounded masses divided 

 by deep valleys and themselves cut up by numerous small 

 valleys and chasms. Heal peaks are generally lacking except 

 perhaps furthest out towards C. Simpson. 



