Some observations made in North-Greenland 1923. 51 
the cascade in the Rode-elv and delineates the same part of the great 
terminal moraine, but seen from the south. Notice the cut of the Воае- 
elv through the moraine. 
The sinking of the land in the present time. 
Godhavn. In 1897 I undertook some measurements with the 
aim that later on they might form a basis for determinations regarding 
the size of the sinking of the land (M. о. G. XIV р. 346). In Aug. 1923 
I got opportunity to remeasure in the same place. In levelling from 
13 balanus stripes I found as а medium that these stripes were situated 
79 em below the fixed point, which I marked in 1897. As the corres- 
ponding distance in that year was 94 cm, the land has sunk 15 cm in 
this periode of 26 years. 
For the sake of later orientation it ought to be noted, that the blubber magazine 
(Spækhuset) on the northside of the harbour, which is seen in the 
sketch in the cited place in M. 0. G. has now been altered a little as 
to the windows (see fig. 9). “Peter Brobergs Hus”, which is mentioned, 
is situated a little to the west of the Administration-building (Lands- 
raadsbygningen) at the point where the coast is bending towards the creek, 
whose opposite coast is Nunguak (Malemuk-Næs). 
Fig. 9. 
The abovementioned and indeed very positive results of the ob- 
servations at Godhavn made it momentous to me also in other places 
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Fig. 10. Petroleum-magazine at Tipidôk near Egedesminde. 
to undertake measurements, which eventually later on might be a basis 
for determination of the sinking of the land. 
Egedesminde. At the harbour itself the possibility for measure- 
ments to that purpose are very impropitious. Accordingly I searched 
in the neighbourhood and I found good balanus at the little creek Tipidôk 
abt. 1 km east of the colony; at that place I measured on the 9th of 
Aug. 1923. As datum I chose the upper edge of the first stone in the 
northwest corner of the petroleum-magazine at the creek. The levelling 
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