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 . r presents for six or seven miles a glisteningbarrier to the waves. North of this, a comparativelydirect line of cliffs extends to Cape Athol, fifty-sixmiles from Cape York. These cliffs lack a crowningice-cap ; the glaciers of the
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 . r presents for six or seven miles a glisteningbarrier to the waves. North of this, a comparativelydirect line of cliffs extends to Cape Athol, fifty-sixmiles from Cape York. These cliffs lack a crowningice-cap ; the glaciers of the Cape York cliffs are re-placed by narrow grass-carpeted ravines leading up toa rolling interior plateau, favourite haunt of deer. Thecliffs themselves, composed of contorted gneiss, show Appendix 455 sharp, angular lines and faces and a comparativelysmall talus. A few little auks breed along- this sec-tion of coast, and numbers of small grass-covered plat-forms and terraces at the foot of the cliffs are favouritesummer camping-places of the natives. At Cape Athol the coast-line turns sharply to theeast-north-east, to form the southern shore of a largebifurcated inlet known as Wolstenholm Sound. Be-tween this shore line, the Petowik ice-stream, and theice-cap, is a large extent of elevated table-land someone thousand feet above the sea, diversified with val-. ICE-CAP AND GLACIERS OF HERBERT ISLAND. leys, streams, and lakes, affording pasturage for num-bers of deer. Within the Sound, the shore bluffs losesome of their abruptness. Some thirty miles fromCape Athol, the Sound is terminated by three greatglacier faces, those of the Moore, Chamberlin, andSalisbury Glaciers. From these, the northern shore,high and bold but not precipitous, and diversified byseveral small glaciers, trends away to the mouth ofGranville Bay, the northerly arm of the Sound. This bay presents an interesting group of gla-ciers, and, following the northern shore to the west- 45^ Northward over the Great Ice
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