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cit.), whose topography recalls what I described from Canning 

 Land, the sharp, characteristic peaks probably owing their- 

 origin to the same phenomena, the resistance to erosion in 

 certain hard banks of the folded sedimentary rocks. Ber- 

 zelius Mountain , situated right opposite , with an almost 

 horizontal stratification, is pronouncedly plateau-shaped; the 

 same is splendidly reproduced, together with the vivid colours 

 of the rock, on the attached picture PI. XI, from a painting by 

 Ditlevsen. 



Fig. 21. Neill's Cliffs, tiie E. border of Jameson Land. 

 (C. Kruuse phot. 12: S: 1900.) 



The large, deep valleys that are met with here probably 

 stand in connection at times with irregularities in the rock, 

 but 1 noticed no true dislocation valleys; not even has Polhem 

 Valley, which follows so near to tlie boundary between archaean 

 and sedimentary rocks, originated in that manner. 



4. Jameson Land (Jurassic and Quaternary Type). 

 This name indicates the territory to the N. of Scoresby Sund, 

 and situated between Liverpool Land, from which the greater part 

 is separated by Hurry Itilet, .uid the ice-covered interior N. 

 of Nordvestfjord: in its configuration it differs strongly from 



