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viz. the N. liiirhlantl area, the coast land on Hurry Inlet and 

 the lowlands in the S. and W. 



The N. highlands consist mainly of isolated rocky mountain- 

 hills, separated by deep valleys with rather steep sides, though 

 not by real canyons. These mountains are also sometimes 

 covered by ice. But already a little further south these elevations 

 close up, so that one can speak of a true plateau, which slowly 

 rises from Ryders Dale from 150 to about 900 metres, and is 

 only interrupted here and there by shallow river-valleys. In 

 these valleys the rocky bed, mostly of light non-fossiliferous 

 quartz sandstone, is often visible. The slope, too, reveals nothing 

 remarkable, but the more interesting are the real plateau- 

 elevations of a mean height of about 800 metres. These are 

 covered everywhere by a large, level, connected cap, usually of 

 some metres in depth, of coarse, very well rounded and washed 

 out gravel, consisting of the greatest variety of rocks: granite, 

 syenite, pegmatite, quartzite, etc. I did not notice any basalt. 

 Already the variation in the blocks shows that they undoubtedly 

 derive from the W. Large blocks, of more than about 2 metres 

 in length, are exceedingly rare. Up here the gravel is evenly 

 distributed; further south, however, one can often observe an 

 arrangement according to the type of shore-gravel, in that the 

 coarser material is gathered up into low hillocks, which are 

 surrounded by a ring of larger blocks, of which one measured 

 as much as 5 metres in length. Here are also huge layers of 

 fine sand, which are lacking in the upper plateau. Sometimes 

 there even occur extensive fields of blocks of well rounded 

 -tones, mostly covering lower districts. Finally, we may mention 

 some curious ridges (in several places, though not numerous) 

 of 4 — 5 m in height and 10 — 30 m in length, formed of well 

 washed pebbles, up to the size of nuts, with numerous blocks, 

 up to half a metre in length, scattered. around, at least on the 

 surface. These formations recall estuary terraces of glacial 

 rivers, or "osar" in the making. A general view of this re- 



