. The Antarctic manual for the use of the expedition of 1901 . Scientific expeditions; Natural history; Geophysics. EXPLORATION OF ANTARCTIC LANDS. 483 Even from the mast-head it was impossible to see far into the interior of the land; only tlie first wall of the mountains was visible. The region in which we now were seemed to be much less buried in ice than the land at the head of Hughes gulf, and the glaciers appeared to be local, coming from no distance in the interior. It is also noteworthy that here the peaks rising as nunataks and the walls of rock bordering the glaciers are sharp, and o
. The Antarctic manual for the use of the expedition of 1901 . Scientific expeditions; Natural history; Geophysics. EXPLORATION OF ANTARCTIC LANDS. 483 Even from the mast-head it was impossible to see far into the interior of the land; only tlie first wall of the mountains was visible. The region in which we now were seemed to be much less buried in ice than the land at the head of Hughes gulf, and the glaciers appeared to be local, coming from no distance in the interior. It is also noteworthy that here the peaks rising as nunataks and the walls of rock bordering the glaciers are sharp, and only rounded by ice-action for the 500 feet nearest the sea. In the neighbourhood of a great glacier coming from the south, where the twelfth landing was made by Eaoovitza and Lecointe, there was a very large roche moutonnee in front of the end of the glacier, which is evidently retreating. A little further to the north of that point I saw a nunatak, at the base of which the ice seemed also to be retreat- ing. On the northern side a very characteristic curvature (a, Fig. 7), with a smoothed surface, was remarked near the snow, while there were large vertical grooves above. I saw very few examples of this kind; as a rule, the nunataks were well buried. The tenth landing (X. on map, Fig. 2) was on a large island. I saw the channel which separates it in the south-west from another land, and to the north-west the sea horizon was unbroken â it was the Pacific ocean. I saw this confirmation of my theories * with much pleasure; there was no doubt that we were on the west coast of the continental land symmetrically placed with regard to the Southern Andes. There is no passage to the east, and the Biscoe islands form a parallel chain belonging to the mountain system of Graham Land. We continued to approach the north-west coast, our course being west-south-west. I noticed a wall forming a little cirque between two promontories, at the foot of which a broad glacier terminated abruptly alo
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