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were no water-feeders from the south. Every particle 

 of moisture had its origin within the Polar Circle, and 

 had been converted into ice. There were no vast allu- 

 vions, no forest or animal traces borne down by liquid 

 torrents. Here was a plastic, moving, semi-solid mass, 

 obliterating life, swallowing rocks and islands, and 

 ploughing its way with irresistible march through the 

 crust of an investing sea." 



" Humboldt Glacier " and " Tennyson's Monument " 

 will deservedly occupy a place in all future editions of 

 those interesting little books called " Wonders of the 

 World." As soon as Dr. Kane had recovered enough to 

 become aware of his failure, he began to devise means for 

 remedying it. Of the ship's company, the only one 

 remaining, qualified to conduct a survey, was Dr. Hayes. 

 He accordingly started with a dog-team, in company 

 with William Godfrey, across Smith's Straits, on the 

 20th of May, and succeeded in reaching 79 45' north 

 latitude, in longitude 69 12'. The coast was sighted 

 for thirty miles to the northward and eastward, and two 

 large headlands, called Capes Joseph Leidy and John 

 Frazer, were named upon it. The doctor returned to 

 the brig, after a very arduous and fatiguing journey, on 

 the 1st of June, worn out and snow-blind. In many 

 places he could not have advanced but for the dogs. 

 Deep cavities filled with snow intervened between lines 

 of ice-barricades, making the travel slow and tedious. 

 For some time he was not able, from snow-blindness, to 

 use the sextant. The rude harness of the dogs would 

 get tangled and cause delay. It was only after appro- 

 priating an undue share of his seal-skin breeches that 

 Dr. Hayes succeeded in patching up his mutilated dog- 

 lines. His pemmican became so reduced that to return 

 was a thing of necessity. The land-ice was travelled 

 for a while at the rate of five or six miles an hour ; but 



