This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...feet high) at the southwestern extreme of Fridtjof Nansen Island, and camped on the snow-slope on the western side. Course: N. 70 W. (true), 7 miles. Total, 7 miles. The incline of the rough glacier is small, not more than from six to eight degrees, and the country behind is about nine hundred or a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...feet high) at the southwestern extreme of Fridtjof Nansen Island, and camped on the snow-slope on the western side. Course: N. 70 W. (true), 7 miles. Total, 7 miles. The incline of the rough glacier is small, not more than from six to eight degrees, and the country behind is about nine hundred or a thousand feet high. The two high headlands to the east (800 feet high) and one 1300 feet high send down the ice from their caps and form the glacier. I think it would have been nearly impossible to take a sledge across it, owing to its broken-up character. One berg lying just off the face of the glacier had evidently been rolled over and over in front of the advancing ice, and was as black as an ink-bottle from the crown to the base. I am doubtful if this plateau is a raised beach, as the stones on the surface showing above the snow are pointed and angular, and exhibit no signs of water-wear. I could find no drift-wood, but the spot is not a likely one for it. The height is about eighty feet. It may, however, be a raised beach, but covered with angular debris from the rocks above. Snow rendered an examination difficult. April jth, Saturday.--As soon as I turned out, the weather being fairly clear except to the eastward towards the rotten floes and the open water, I ascended to the top of the plateau and took bearings and sketches. We then packed up and proceeded across the Robert Peel Sound towards the round of the glacier to the Afterwards named by me after Dr. Nansen. north of Guy's Head, which I named after Guy's Hospital out of compliment to our doctor, who studied there, where we took an observation for latitude and longitude last spring. In common with all the other ice we have met with, the sound has cleared out since last spring, and...
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