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both these areas. It is low, even and free from ice, especially 

 in the southern part. It is known to me partly from a lengthy 

 excursion I made towards the INW. from the inmost part of 

 Hurry Inlet, partly from studies made along the whole of its 

 coast on Hurry Inlet and Scoresby Sund. As far as I could 

 see, all the rocky bed of the territory consists of Jurassic de- 

 posits^), which in the N. rise to peaks of 1000 metres and 



Fig. 22. South coast of Jameson Land, near C. Hooker, with a large 

 stranded iceberg. (G. Kruuse phot. 15: 8: 1900.) 



more, and on Hurry Inlet form a steep wall of up to 600 metres 

 in height, (cfr, the typical picture in fig. 21 and the painting 

 PI. XII), while towards the SW. they grow lower and lower, so 

 that they only exceptionally emerge, the whole country down 

 to the sea-level being formed of Quaternary deposits. 



Both from a geological and a topographic point of view 

 the territory may therefore be divided into three main divisions. 



') Cfr. also the remarii on p. 188. 



