46 Е. Fropa. 
before reaching the middle (the most elevated part of the front) I ob- 
served several small mounds just outside the edge of the ice; they 
looked as if they had been formed a short time ago only. I deemed 
them to be about 1 m high. Curiously their direction was perpendicular 
to the front of the glacier, what I cannot explain, unless they have 
been formed by the melting-water. 
Along the southern side of the glacier е.1. beneath the slope of 
Unartorssuak, а brook had formed its bed in the surface of the ice 
to a depth of 1 to 11/, m, but the bed was only partly filled with water 
Fig. 3. 
at the moment. This brook joins the main outlet from the southeast 
patch near the latters glacier-port (fig. 3). Parallel to the southside of 
the glacier and near to it lay more mounds or moraines, 3 to 4m high 
and consisting of very heterogeneous material; some of them — at all 
events — lay on “dead” ice. 
Professor Mercanton had expressed the wish, that fixed marks 
should be placed as near as possible to the front corner of the south- 
east-patch, which he had measured in 1912; these marks should be 
fixed points for periodical measurements of the position of the ice. 
However, I found the soil so swampy and evidently in a so non-disposited 
state, that the placing of marks would be in vain. 
The cairns at Mercanton’s measurement-stations A & В were found 
unhurt as shown in his photographs; his results have been derived by 
