Climbing to the top of the shore cliffs, which here are only about one hundred feet high, we came upon a narrow plateau sloping upward to the base of the lofty parapets of reddened beds of lava and volcanic ash. The plateau is covered with a thick carpet of vegetation, consisting of the Arctic willow, a savin, several flowering plants among which a yellow poppy is conspicuous, grass, mosses and lichens. But the largest of the willow "trees" have trunks only six or even feet long and they are prone upon the ground or nearly so. The flora of the southern coast of Disko is of par- ticular interest to botanists, because the region forms a border or transi- tion zone between the sub-arctic and Arctic regions. The view from