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wall is produced, rising out of water sufficiently dec]) 

 to float the ships in, and standing thirty feet high ; and 

 had returned to the region where the shore is merely 

 bordered by an 'ice-foot,' the upper surface of which 

 is level with the top of high-water, and the bottom of 

 its ice-cliff is at the low-water level. 



In Kane's Sea, off the exposed capes which receive 

 great pressure, the ice becomes piled up on the ' ice- 

 foot ' until a solid cliff is formed something like that 

 to the northward, but the water at the edge of the cliff 

 is never more than about a fathom deep at low- tide. 



With the flood-tide the ice left the northern shore, 

 but packed against Cape Joseph Good. As the 

 weather looked threatening, with a very rapidly rising 

 barometer, we ran up the bay, hoping to find shelter 

 for the ships. Entering a land-locked basin, named 

 Kaclmore Harbour (after one of Commander Markham's 

 sledge companions), I found several pieces of icebergs 

 grounded on the shore, and secured the 'Alert' to 

 one of them ; the ' Discovery ' going farther in and 

 making fast to some last winter's ice which had not 

 yet broken up. 



At the head of the bay we observed a discharging 

 glacier, which was evidently the parent of the numerous 

 small icebergs studding the harbour. This was to us 

 a very unusual sight, as we had not seen any since 

 leaving Bessel's Bay in August the previous year. The 

 glacier was named Jolliffe, after another of Markham's 



men 



It being spring-tides, the current ran with great 

 strength into the bay, bringing with it a laro-e 

 quantity of ice, which gradually filled up the harbour ; 



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