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 . f deer. Within the Sound, the shore bluffs losesome of their abruptness. Some thirty miles fromCape Athol, the Sound is terminated by three greatglacier faces, those of the Moore, Chamberlin, andSalisbury Glaciers. From these, the
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 . f deer. Within the Sound, the shore bluffs losesome of their abruptness. Some thirty miles fromCape Athol, the Sound is terminated by three greatglacier faces, those of the Moore, Chamberlin, andSalisbury Glaciers. From these, the northern shore,high and bold but not precipitous, and diversified byseveral small glaciers, trends away to the mouth ofGranville Bay, the northerly arm of the Sound. This bay presents an interesting group of gla-ciers, and, following the northern shore to the west- 45^ Northward over the Great Ice ward some thirty miles, a black cliff is reached atwhich the line of bluffs trends again to the north-west-ward in a continuation of the line interrupted at CapeAthol. In the mouth of Wolstenholm Sound is aninteresting group of islands, described farther cliff is from a distance the apparent but not thereal northern point of Wolstenholm Sound. At thefoot of it, and extending north-westward for a distanceof twenty miles, is a peculiar strip of low foreshore,.
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