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markable country, as seen from the northern hills, is shown 

 on fig. 23. 



The same well rounded gravel, though in less quantity, 

 occurs up on the plateau heights right down to Cape Stewart, 

 and exceptionally I found even here on one of the highest 

 points, about 540 metres above the sea, a number of the same, 

 large, exceedingly well rounded and almost smooth polished 

 gravel-stones, so numerous in the N. 



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Fig. 23. Jameson Land, seen from the northern hills, in the direction 

 facing Scoresby Sund. (Nordenskjold phot. August 1900.) 



How this most peculiar formation, spread over so large an 

 area, came about, is not an easy question to answer. But it 

 shows such a remarkable resemblance to another, well-known 

 formation, the Patagonian gravel-formation, that we can scarcely 

 get away from the idea of an at least similar origin. In another 

 place ^) I have dealt with the question of this probably quater- 

 nary gravel in detail, and proposed the theory that it was de- 

 posited by large glacier-rivers. In the present case, it is true, 



^) Über die posttertiären Ablagerungen der Magellansländer; Svenska Exp. 

 till Magellansländerna Vol. I, no: 2, p. 43. 





