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TERRACED BEACHES. 
coast of Greenland. They are more imposing, and on 
a larger scale than those of Wellington Channel, which 
are now regarded by geologists as indicative of secular 
uplift of coast. As these strange structures wound 
in long spirals around the headlands of the fiords, 
THE TERRACED FIORDS. 
they reminded me of the parallel roads of Glen Roy, 
a comparison which I make rather from general resem¬ 
blance than ascertained analogies of causes. 
u There is a boulder ten miles from our brig, say 
seven from the coast,—a mass of rounded syenite, at 
an altitude of eleven hundred feet, resting? entirely 
