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THE MER DE GLACE. 



it was reached by Mr. Wilson and myself, as before 

 stated. Its first appearance upon the coast in that 

 direction is at the head of Smith's Sound, in the 

 great Humboldt Glacier, which is reputed to be sixty 

 miles across. Beyond this it presses upon Washing- 

 ton Land, and thence stretches away into the region 

 of the unknown. 



