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south-westerly gale, and the whole sea to the north was 

 closely packed with floes that ground together and would 

 have stove in the boat. To the west, however, the sea was 

 clear, and we hoisted sail and ran for Cape Waern. 1 We 

 landed on one of its two islands, where many eiders were 

 breeding ; and afterwards ran the boat at Cape Waern on 

 to a terrace worn by the sea in the chert rock. 



Coincident with our landing fell a remarkable change 

 in the weather — the rain stopped, the wind died away, and 

 we were in sunshine. The impression made both upon 

 Conway and myself by the place and the circumstances 

 of the time, I suppose neither is likely to forget. The 

 sudden clearness, the deep water (literally clear as a crystal), 

 the marvellous wealth of sea-weed, the splendour of the 

 great glacier at the head of the bay, the sharp blue peaks 

 of the nunatak-like mountains which separated glacier from 

 glacier westward over the bay to Cape Boheman ; the contrast, 

 on the other hand, where over Cape Thordsen and Advent 

 Bay wreaths of storm-torn clouds were still coiling, and 

 finally a carpet of flowers — andromeda, saxifrages, dryas — 

 more luxuriant by far than I have elsewhere seen them in 

 the Arctics, all contributed to the same effect. However, 

 this report is not the place in which to dwell upon im- 

 pressions, but just as in the course of our first walk upon 

 the cliffs, we found ourselves speaking in superlatives of 

 the "splendid" glacier and of our plateau as the "flower- 

 garden," so these became the names the two things took. 



By the "Flower-Garden" I shall mean the whole of a 

 plateau which is included south and north by Cape Waern 

 and by the range of mountains ending in the Colosseum, and 

 east and west by the sea. The strata of which this is corn- 

 Cape Waern is the name of the point between Dickson and Ekman bays, wrongly 

 named Cape Wijk on the Admiralty chart. Cape Wijk is the point E. of the entrance 

 to Dickson Bay.— W. M. C. 



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