Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . .^l^^l,^ ARCTIC FLOWERS. cap winds, an abundant pasturage springs up for the bay seems to end at a black cliff, lyingdirectly across it, twenty-one miles from the narrows,but on a near approach an opening is seen to ther
Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . .^l^^l,^ ARCTIC FLOWERS. cap winds, an abundant pasturage springs up for the bay seems to end at a black cliff, lyingdirectly across it, twenty-one miles from the narrows,but on a near approach an opening is seen to theright, and passing through these upper narrows, but atrifle over a mile in width, the third and last sectionof the fjord is entered. This section is almost com-pletely walled by steep bluffs and vertical cilffs, and Appendix 463 terminates finally at the face of a glacier flowing fromthe main interior ice-cap. A short southerly branchis also terminated by a considerable glacier. The totallength of this bay is fifty miles, and its average widthnot over three miles. Returning to the bluff Kanga, at the mouth of thebay, the main shore of the Sound trends north-easterly,. 0: :T- V-: * • f ^f . ARCTIC FLOWERS. in a succession of deeply eroded cliffs and steep bluffs,uninterrupted by glaciers, thirteen miles, when it turnsdue east again, and in a series of rounded hills, onwhose rests an ice-cap, reaches eastward tothe mouth of Academy Bay, thirty-five miles fromKanga. Academy Bay is much smaller than Olriks, beingbut about thirteen miles lono- and two miles wide 464 Northward over the Great Ice Cutting into the land at first in a south-easterly direc-tion, it swings due east and terminates at the face ofa large glacier, which is practically the northern armof the one entering the head of Olriks Bay. Thoughthe shores of this bay are bold throughout, there areportions of the north-eastern side where steep valleysgive access to the elevated and extensive rollingplateau ly
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