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by a closer examination, to establish this interesting fact. 

 The Colorado region shows the first beginnings of hill 

 formation by water action. The row of hills on the south- 

 west side of the Sassendal are typical of the next stage of 

 development. The hills between De Geer Valley and Advent 

 Bay are complete and developed mountains, with sharp 

 ridges and forms of marked individuality. 



Beyond the Colorado Hills a range of higher peaks stood 

 up against the horizon, but only their summits were visible, 

 and we could not discover the principle of their arrange- 

 ment. They appeared to be connected with the Temple 

 Mountain group, and to enclose glaciers draining down to 

 the Post Glacier and so to Temple Bay. This is a region 

 that would well repay exploration, and would be approached 

 most easily by way of the Post Glacier. 



Turning our backs on the Colorado Hills, we had before 

 us the region through which we had come, when clouds 

 permitted us to see no more than the bases of mountains 

 whose whole mass was now revealed. Booming Glacier 

 stretched back prominently in the midst of a tumultuous 

 region of hills. It is a more important ice-river than we 

 supposed, and flows down in sinuous curves from a remote 

 snowfield, about and beyond whose head appeared a tantalis- 

 ing multitude of peaks. Between the Baldhead and Fox Peak 

 again, was another considerable glacier basin, of whose extent 

 we unfortunately never attained accurate information. The 

 view, as a whole, was of a region in which man has no 

 abiding-place — a land not made for man, but mainly inimical 

 to him. In such a world the human species would swiftly 

 degenerate and presently disappear. Birds and reindeer 

 would alone survive, and the highest civilisation would be 

 that of the glaucous gulls. 



Garwood joined me on the summit, when the plane- 

 tabling was done. Together we went again round the view, 



