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observations taken in the interior of the fjords here described 

 point to a different conclusion. For, irrespective of the rocky 

 bed, which may consist either of primary rock, basalt or sedi- 

 mentary rocks, all the highlands here tend to assume a pro- 

 nounced plateau shape. This appears already very characteri- 

 stically in the central parts of Scoresby Sund (Renland and 

 Milne Land, cfr. fig. 26), and still more plainly in the interior 

 of Forsblad Fjord. The same observations can be made at 

 other parts of East Greenland, e. g. on the reproductions in 



Fig. 26. Renland and the entrance to Nordvestfjord, filled with icebergs, 

 seen from Jameson Land. (C. Kruuse phot. 15: 8: 1900.) 



the already cited work of Nathorst's, "Två somrar i Norra Is- 

 hafvet". Vol. П, pp. 257, 264, 268, 326, etc. Some isolated 

 masses of mountains may of course assume bolder outlines, 

 but in the main the phenomenon is striking. Naturally, in the 

 neighbourhood of the fjords it nowhere reaches the development 

 of a continuous plateau; the innermost point of the whole territory 

 known to us is the interior of Franz Joseph Fjord, of the nature 

 of which we can get a conception from the picture on p. 246 

 of Nathorst's work. The phenomenon appears much less 



