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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: D. Appleton and co. Subjects: Greenland Glaciers Glacial epoch Geology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. EXCURSIONS ON THE COAST OF GREENLAND. The " outskirts " of Greenland, as they are called, consist of a fringe of islands, mountains, and promontories surrounding the vast ice-covered central portion, and varying in width from a mere border up to eighty miles. Upon the east side this fringe is everywhere exceedingly narrow, and affords but scanty opportunity for the maintenance of life of any kind. Upon the west side, below the seventy-third parallel, it has an average of about fifty miles in width, and extends with little interruption from Cape Farewell to Melville Bay, a distance of something over one thousand miles. Everywhere this mountainous belt is penetrated by deep fiords which reach to the inland ice, and are terminated by the perpendicular fronts of huge glaciers ; while in the vicinity of Ivigtut (latitude 61) and Frederikshaab (latitude 62 45') the ice comes down in broad projections close to the sea margin. The seaward aspect of the west Greenland coast is stern and forbidding in the extreme. The serrate edge of the long mountain chain does not, however, rise to any great height, being rarely over two thousand or three thousand feet above the level of the sea, with occasional peaks running up to four thousand feet. It is only in a limited area north of Disco Island that the mountains rise to a height of seven thousand feet. As first seen from a distance of forty or fifty miles, Greenland seems anything but a justification of its name, for even the " outskirts, " which are supposed t
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