Greenland, 1917
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(12) Cape Seddon is composed of dark gray banded feldspathic gruss. It is intersected near Tooktooliksuah with some nar- row steep-walled gorges, which look as if they might be due to the decon- position and removal of trap discs, but they were so filled with snow that I did not see the rock itself. The Eskimos here get their water even in the coldest weather from a small lake or pond in the hills 100 feet (?) above the igloos. There is no glacier here or any part of the ice cap, hence the depression must be filled with melted snow and groundwater from the surrounding heights. Did not learn the thickness of the