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 . *^ 2 rz 4^8 Northward over the Great Ice The ice-cap itself is also in evidence here, its verti-cal face in one place capping and forming a continua-tion of a vertical cliff which rises direct from the the western point of
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 . *^ 2 rz 4^8 Northward over the Great Ice The ice-cap itself is also in evidence here, its verti-cal face in one place capping and forming a continua-tion of a vertical cliff which rises direct from the the western point of the bay, a line of greysandstone cliffs—the Sculptured Cliffs of Karnah—interrupted by a single glacier in a distance of eightmiles, and carved by the resistless arctic elementsinto turrets, bastions, huge amphitheatres, and colossalstatues of men and animals, extends to Cape Ackland,. JUNE IN BOWDOIN BAY. the Karnah of the natives. Here the cliffs endabruptly, and the shore trending north-westward toCape Cleveland, eighteen miles distant, consists of analmost continuous succession of fan-shaped, rockydeltas formed by glacier streams. Back of the shore-line is a gradually sloping foreshore, rising to the footof an irregular series of hills, which rise more steeplyto the icecap lying upon their summits. In almostevery depression between these hills, the face of aglacier may be seen, and it is the streams from these Appendix 469 that have made the shore what it is, and formed thewide shoals off it, on which every year a numerousfleet of icebergs ^ ecomes stranded. At the yellow bastion of Cape Cleveland, the shoreretreats sharply to the eastward into McCormick Bay,which penetrates to a depth of some fifteen miles, andthe former extension of it, now a wide grassy valleywalled by bluffs and glacier faces, reaches eastward _^^^^M IL . __.^ ^^^^^^^ l^f^^H^^^^^^^^^^f^^^^^I
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