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 . umerous sea-birds,—Hak-luyt, Dalrymple. The contrast between individual islands, thoughmarked in each group, is especially noticeable in thecase of Herbert and Northumberland. Though sepa-rated by a channel scarcely more than one m
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 . umerous sea-birds,—Hak-luyt, Dalrymple. The contrast between individual islands, thoughmarked in each group, is especially noticeable in thecase of Herbert and Northumberland. Though sepa-rated by a channel scarcely more than one mile wide,Herbert is a vertical-sided, fiat-topped mass of varie-gated sandstone without a sea-level glacier, and withbut a small ice-cap ; while Northumberland is a mass Appendix 473 of hieh summits of eneissose and basaltic rocks almostcompletely covered with ice-cap, from which exudenumerous sea-level glaciers. This island presents, inthe close juxtaposition of Bowing white ice-domes andragged black cliffs, the most striking contrasts of colourand sky contour. Another feature is the frequent recurrence of sharpconical rocks rising directly from the sea. The leastpronounced of these is Round Island, some thirtymiles east of Cape York. Then come the well-knownConical, Dalrymple, and Bell Rocks ; then the less-known and smaller but equally pronounced Little. LITTLETON ISLAND FROM SITE OF POLARIS HOUSE. Matterhorn at the head of Inglefield Gulf, and Suther-land Island just south of Cape Alexander. In the proximity of the ice-cap to the shore, andthe existence of numerous detached ice-caps or domesseparated completely from the Inland-Ice sheet, thisregion is marked. An impressive feature, too, is the glaciers ; hundredsof these, of all sizes, shapes, and characteristics, flow Still further examples of these peculiar islands are Cocked-Hat Island westof Cape Sabine, Cone Island in Jones Sound, and Sugar Loaf in the bay southof Wilcox Head. 474 Northward over the Great Ice down th
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