. Report on the proceedings of the United States expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell Land [microform] . Scientific expeditions; Scientific expeditions. â¢1 ' "i i I I { '. â hicomttcr [762,49"""]; snowing all day. At 6 p. m., temperature ; [â° C.]; ;frV^!' ;'. ,';""]; light east wind clouds breaking up. Ai(i-j i ;,â'Thu rr. rning v as promising, and at a. m. I left camp with Sergeant Brainard to ascend the cliffs to the ; We got up by means of the ravine before referred to. Before long, however, a
. Report on the proceedings of the United States expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell Land [microform] . Scientific expeditions; Scientific expeditions. â¢1 ' "i i I I { '. â hicomttcr [762,49"""]; snowing all day. At 6 p. m., temperature ; [â° C.]; ;frV^!' ;'. ,';""]; light east wind clouds breaking up. Ai(i-j i ;,â'Thu rr. rning v as promising, and at a. m. I left camp with Sergeant Brainard to ascend the cliffs to the ; We got up by means of the ravine before referred to. Before long, however, a storm began to form in the east, and soon the driving snow shut out everything and prevented a view of the mouth of a fiord. Previously, howev >r^ a lofty range of snow-clad mountains was observed on the north side of the fiord, extending generally parallel witli it, and estimated at about fifty miles distant. In these mount- ains a large glacier was seen. To the south, about twenty-five miles off", is another large glacier, probably an offshoot of the " Chinese wall ; The whole face of the country in that direction seemed ice-capped. We continued along the edge of the cliiTs for about four miles. Here the barometer gave an elevation of 2,250 feet [686'"]. To the west the cliffs appeared to trend back much more towards the south, the fiord becoming wider. Several deep valleys run in a north or northwest direction to the fiord. Beyond all these was to be seen obscurely what looked like a line of cliffs, having a northwest direction, and marking a branch fiord, probably much nearer than " Land's End" [Cape Brainard], the west of north shore. After half an hour's delay started back. Jin route Sergeant Brainard discovered fossil remains on the mountain top and soon we had quite a collection. One was a shell and the others what we took for petri- fied wood, fish, &c. A few specimens of , &c., were als
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