. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. n front intensely illuminated by the this line of cliff rose in solid glassy wall threehundred feet above the water-level, with an unknownunfathomable depth below it; and its curved face,sixty miles in length from Cape Agassiz to CapeForbes, vanished into unknown space at not morethan a single days railroad-travel from the interior with which it communicated, and fromwhich it issued, was an unsurveyed mer de glace, anice-ocean, to the eye of boundless dimensions.^^^^ It was in
. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. n front intensely illuminated by the this line of cliff rose in solid glassy wall threehundred feet above the water-level, with an unknownunfathomable depth below it; and its curved face,sixty miles in length from Cape Agassiz to CapeForbes, vanished into unknown space at not morethan a single days railroad-travel from the interior with which it communicated, and fromwhich it issued, was an unsurveyed mer de glace, anice-ocean, to the eye of boundless dimensions.^^^^ It was in full sight—the mighty crystal bridgewhich connects the two continents of America andGreenland. I say continents; for Greenland, howeverinsulated it may ultimately prove to be, is in massstrictly continental. Its least possible axis, measuredfrom Cape Farewell to the line of this glacier, in tlie Vol. L—15 226 THE GREAT GLACIER neighborhood of the 80th parallel, gives a length ofmore than twelve hundred miles, not materially lessthan that of Australia from its northern to its southerncape/^^^.
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