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lake, is comparatively at rest, excepting in those places where it 

 streams out into the sea by vast but short glaciers. If one of 

 these glaciers, through which the ice-lake falls out into the sea, 

 pass over smooth ground where the ocean's bottom gradually 

 changes into land without any steep breaks, steep precipitous 



Fig. 4. Inland Ice (A) extending into the Sea (D) and terminating in a steep 

 edge, 100 to 200 feet higri. 



glaciers are produced, from which indeed large ice-masses fall 

 down, but do not give rise to any real iceberg. But if the mouth 

 of the fjord be narrow, the depth of the outlying sea great, and the 

 inclination of the shore considerable, the result will be one of those 

 magnificent ice-fjords which Rink so admirably describes, and 

 which we, later in the course of our journey, had an opportunity 

 of visiting. The following diagram will illustrate this more 

 clearly. 



1,500 ft. 

 Fig. 5. 



Fig. 5. Inland Ice abutting on the bottom of an ice-fjord, i.e., a fjord in 

 which real icebergs are formed. 



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