CHAPTER XV. 
AVe were now opposite the line of coast between 
Allison’s and Duneira Bays, immediately north of 75°. 
Here, with the new sunshine, the Greenland shore 
broke upon us. It was covered with extended gla- 
ciers, filling up the intervals between protruding mass- 
es of gneiss and other metaniorphic rocks. The con- 
figuration of their surface, as seen from a distance of 
eighteen miles, had an apparent relation to that of the 
basis of country on which they were erected. 
My first feeling was one of disappointment, for I had 
expected a more palpable resemblance to the glaciers 
of the Alps. But this feeling soon gave place to 
amazement. It is true that they were neither sus- 
pended upon the flanks of lofty mountains nor inclosed 
in valley hills ; hut these regions of eternal snow need- 
ed no mountain altitudes to furnish forth the inore- 
