. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. 5^o N()rtir\v:ir(l ox'cr the "(ircat K:c " \'ii ii)iis|\- ;it iuT iiiM:irin;j;-i ;i:i(l ki'fpinL; iii-' in .1 tcvrrnl aiixiftv (lu
. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. 5^o N()rtir\v:ir(l ox'cr the "(ircat K:c " \'ii ii)iis|\- ;it iuT iiiM:irin;j;-i ;i:i(l ki'fpinL; iii-' in .1 tcvrrnl aiixiftv (luriii,; iiiiiiiilo-^ w iiicli liki- iiours, kiniwiiiL; :is I did it one ol the liiu's parlrd, the ureal timiicrs, with niu- end still ftstinL;' n|t(inin' //.'/'â '.v luM\in:i deck, woald act as iire^i^tilile lexers to |)r\ tile 1)1()( k-. t'nnn under the iin'teDrite and let il l'i|i|de over ihe edLie ot' the pier into tiie watei'. It was with the niniost re- lict that I saw the .^well^ eradnallv subside, and \ et the oca urreiK'i' kepi i:ie in a state ut' apprehension tor tiie luAt tort\-ciL;ht iioiirs, until I had the uietcoritc lirnih mounted upon its car and rest- ini; its lull weight upon the insiiore end ol the hridi^e. The same thing niighl again occur at any nionicni, and I remcm-. THE MASONIC GROUP. Figj^iiis, I'eary. Hartlett, Hunter, Opeiti. bereil with un[ileasant \i\i(liiess an entire night last year during \vhi( h the //('/>(' tossed and tugged at her lines like a wild animal, upon the continuous swells caused bv the (lisru[)ted icebergs about her. I're^-ious to launching the timbers to tiie shore, the eilge of the pier liad been caretullv levelled and a heavv timber bridge seat laid upon it. The and rock back of tiiis had been graded and tamped to afford a tlrni bearing. The assembling of the bridge, and the stringing of the cable truss (ompleted, the thirt\-foot stantlard steel rails of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford R. R., weighing op
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