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 . SCULPTURED CLIFFS OF of Grey Sandstone. from one to two or three miles in width, lying betweenthe base of the cliffs and the sea. The counterpartof this feature is not to be found anywhere else in thecountry. It is c
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 . SCULPTURED CLIFFS OF of Grey Sandstone. from one to two or three miles in width, lying betweenthe base of the cliffs and the sea. The counterpartof this feature is not to be found anywhere else in thecountry. It is cut by three small irregular inlets, fromthe centre of one of which rises the striking mass ofBell Rock, and finally narrows to a point and endsunder the towering black cliffs of Cape Parry, thesouthern portal of the next great inlet, Whale the rear of this foreshore three large glaciers de- Appendix 457 scend through breaks in the bluffs and reach the sea-level in the inlets. The shore proper is a savageblack wall of ragged rock, low, with outlying reefs androcks,—a shore to be avoided. Standinor gruard at the southern entrance of WhaleSound, Cape Parry, some twelve hundred feet inheight, and one of the most striking landmarks of thiscoast, presents a vertical face to the west and north-. CASTLE CLIFFS. Erosion of Red Sandstone. west. To the observer on a ship coming north fromWolstenholm Island, Hakluyt, Northumberland, andthe western point of Herbert Island have been visiblefor some time before reaching the cape. During the long summer day, the water below thedark cliff is alive with the whirring wings and g-leam-ing white breasts of countless little auks. Roundingthe cape, there opens up the wide expanse of one ofthe largest, most diversified, and most attractive of ) 45S Northward over the Great Ice Arctic inlets. Fifty-five miles wide at its mouth, whichis divided into two broad channels by a trio of command-ing islands, and eighty miles deep, it presents everyp
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