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sea-warcl coast of Greenland in general; but there 
is a beautiful peculiarity in the stratification of 
the rocks. The structure of the mountains facing 
the north, are in general distinguished by nume¬ 
rous parallel, horizontal strata or beds, forming 
ledges not unlike steps, on a gigantic scale, which 
strata are distinguished from the rest of the dark 
coloured precipitous surfaces, by fine white lines 
of snow, that give the whole coast a beautiful and 
picturesque appearance. (See Plate VII). This 
structure appears to be rather similar to that 
which Captain Parry remarked in the land on the 
north side of Barrow’s Strait. The height of the 
land on this border of the Sound, was estimated, 
in general, at 2600 feet. Two of the mountains 
were measured, by the angle subtended at a known 
distance, from which their height appeared to be 
2604 feet, and 3000 feet. This coast is a grand 
source of icebergs. Every valley and ravine from 
Cape Brewster, for many leagues towards the west, 
is filled with ice. This, in some places, forms pro¬ 
digious beds on the top of the front range of hills 
(which are in general of less elevation than the 
second range), extending, in a single surface, for 
many miles together. These ices or glaciers, 
evidently give rise to the numerous floating bergs 
with which the sea is strewed to an extent of thir¬ 
ty or forty miles, to the eastward and southward of 
