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rich variety of rocks, in the formation of which huge, almost massive 

 banks of calcareous sandstone enter, as also not inconsiderable 

 quantities of the surface-eruptives that have already been described. 

 The beds dip rather abruptly and the emanating strata-tops of 

 harder beds produce peaked points projecting from the ridges, 

 as is beautifully shown on fig. 18, while ûg. 20 gives us a 

 general idea of the aspect of the country, seen from a distance. 

 The landscape character of the areas just described is 



Fig. 18. NW. Peninsula of Canning Land, seen Irom .\. 

 (C. Kruuse phot. 24: 8: 1900.) 



typical of the comparatively low, violently broken up districts 

 nearest the coast-line. Further inland, at some distance from 

 the forks of Kong Oscar Fjord, we find very high mountains, 

 which, however, were seen only at a distance. The character of 

 this mountainous landscape is best seen in the series of good 

 pictures that Nathorst reproduced in his work "Två somrar 

 i norra ishafvet". Where the mountains consist of horizontal 

 sedimentary beds, they have most often a tendency to a plateau- 

 shape. The wildest mountains I had an opportunity of seeing 

 are the so-called "Syltopparne" (reproduced on p. 300 of op. 



