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Transcription
Peter's house and an clay flow [1]
and embanked stream on the upper
edge of the "Illinois Fields." The
raised edges of the short stream are
probably caused, according to N.R.E.,
by differential elevation due to un-
equal freezing and thawing in the
ground upon the uneven sur-face of the ice table or upon the
surface of the rock floor, which
is not deeply buried. We passed the
graves of two Danes and three Greenlanders,
two of the latter were children of Seck-
mann Rosbach, formerly Peters assistant
or clerk. On our return route we
went to Astrup's monument or
cenotaph, a cairn of angular
blocks of diabase partly covering
a triangular block of the same
rock all built so as to face the ice.