Scottish geographical magazine . s a long, narrow, snow-covered plain, its highestpoint being not more than 150 feet above sea-level. Its total lengthfrom east to west is 29 miles, and its average breadth four miles. The smaller islands and rocks scattered about this region are all ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. 65 volcanic and mostly basaltic. They seem to rise from the sea almost asperpendicularly as the icebergs, and present little or no surface on whiclisnow can rest. Paulet Island differs from these in being cone-shaped,and having an easily accessible beach. Lying in the south of the Erebus and T
Scottish geographical magazine . s a long, narrow, snow-covered plain, its highestpoint being not more than 150 feet above sea-level. Its total lengthfrom east to west is 29 miles, and its average breadth four miles. The smaller islands and rocks scattered about this region are all ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. 65 volcanic and mostly basaltic. They seem to rise from the sea almost asperpendicularly as the icebergs, and present little or no surface on whiclisnow can rest. Paulet Island differs from these in being cone-shaped,and having an easily accessible beach. Lying in the south of the Erebus and Terror Gulf is Seymour Island,of some importance as being the depository of the only fossils as yet dis-covered in the Antarctic. For specimens of these I am indebted toCaptain Larsen, of the Norwegian sealer Jason. Seymour Island formsthe eastern boundary of Admiralty Inlet. It is long and low, andsepai-ated from the mainland by a narrow channel. Its surface, lookedat from a distance, has a peculiar ribbed appearance, which Ross. Paulbt Island. {Drawn from a photograph by Dr. Donald,) describes as resembling the machine-turning on the back of a Larsen landed on the east side, where I have no doubt hismarks will be found by the next expedition. The fossils he describes aslying loose on the surface in considerable numbers. Cockburn Island, lying in Admiralty Inlet, is also important, asbeing the most southerly point on which Koss found traces of vegetablelife. It is a small precipitous island, the elevation of which, accordingto Sir James Ross, is 27GO feet. Sir Joseph Hooker, in describing thevegetation, says: The flora of Cockburn Island contains nineteenspecies, all belonging to the orders Mosses, Algce, and Lichens. Andthen, after an account of these, continues : On approaching Cockburn[sland, the cliffs above were seen to be belted with yellow, which, as itwere, streams down to the ocean among the rocky debris. The colourwas too pale to be caused by iron ochre,
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