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Alpine ice-masses. Here too, again, I only reached the ice in 

 one spot, viz. in the already described (p. 231) valley opposite the 

 Fame Islands ("Limestone Л'^аПеу" or Kalkdalen). A considerable 

 glacier here descends in a narrow passage from the inner highland 

 district, widening out into a broad, fan-shaped tongue (see fig. 32) 

 from which a river takes its rise. Conspicuous moraine embank- 

 ments are not to be seen in front of the ice, but the glacier evidently 



Fig. 32. Glacier tongue, at the upper end of Kalkdalen, Liverpool Land. 

 (Nordenskjold phot. Aug. 1900.) 



filled the whole valley at an earlier epoch, in any case as far 

 as the remarkable "sill" at its entrance, already described. 



The adjoining picture also shows us that plateau-shaped 

 mountains are not lacking either in the interior of Liverpool 

 Land, although they may only appear to the W. of the 

 ice-divide. 



The influence of the ice on iji.e configuration of the country. 

 I can curtail the remarks 1 have to make on this head, and 

 need only refer to the descriptions already given. In this district, 

 as presumably in the whole of Greenland, we can distinguish 3 



