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tion. Intermediate in accessibility between the glacial 
districts of Europe and Greenland, it is more comprehen¬ 
sive than either in variety of local circumstance. The 
complexity of interacting conditions may for a long time 
baffle attempts at analysis, but when the complexity has 
been resolved, the resulting theory should have wider 
application than one founded on simpler phenomena. 
