The Geographical journal - 1893 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of Scoresby Sound were explored and mapped. It appeared from these explorations that the Hurry's Inlet, between Jameson's Land and Liverpool Coast, is not an inl... more »et connecting Scoresby Sound with Davy Sound —as supposed by Scoresby—but only a fjord 28 miles long. It has in the east the steep crags of Liverpool Coast, rising to a height of 3000 feet, and seemingly composed of gneiss. Towards the west rise the 2500-feet-high crags of Jameson's Land, which are considered bythe explorers as an immense moraine of the glacial age. Many fossils, both animals and plants, belonging to the Jurassic and to Tertiary periods, were collected there. SKETCH OF THE INNER RRANCHES OF SCOHESRY SOVND, RY LIEUT. C. RYDER, ROYAL DANISH MARINE, 1892. (Scale 50 miles = 1 inch. Soundings in fathoms. Heights in feet.) At Cape Brewster, where fossils from a period older than the Jurassic have been found, the crags are but from 300 to 500 feet high, and the coast is covered with moraines. It has a relatively rich vegetation, and on standing here one almost forgets that he is in a polar region. On the contrary, the southern shore of Scoresby Sound is a high nnindented basalt wall, 60 miles long, covered with small secondary glaciers, which are reconstructed on the slopes out of debris of the ice, which falls in cascades from the upper plateau. The interior ice attains a height of about 6000 feet. The ramifications of the tributary fjords appear in Lieutenant Eyder's map, which we reproduce. The edge of the inland ice, which is 176 miles distant from the sea at Liverpool Coast, is seen at the heads of the smaller bays of the fjords. It appears certain that all the fjords reach the inland ice. The heights of the icebergs from the northern glaciers in Hall's Inlet have been measured up to 300 f...« less