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posed dip from north-east to south-west, at such an angle 

 that the chert bed on which our boat lay at Cape Waern 

 was once continuous with the same formation which now 

 makes some of the highest bedding in the Capitolium Moun- 

 tain, and possibly with those of the east side of Dickson Bay. 

 Going northward, the gradually rising plateau becomes over- 

 laid with carboniferous rock, with here and there dolomitic 

 traces. For large areas over the plateau the chert is so 

 entirely disintegrated, and is laid so level, that it presents a 

 surface like that of a road freshly metalled with finely broken 

 flints. Upon the plateau, separated from one another by a 

 wide interval, are two very remarkable boulders, evidently 

 glacier-borne. They would measure some eight feet in 

 height by eight in diameter, and are schistic in formation. 

 There are several reindeer here, and they are very tame. 



July 1 6. Wind SE. Bar. 29.60. — The wind rose again, 

 but without rain. Conway sketched while I visited the 

 Splendid Glacier, sailing down easily, and landing at the 

 western shore almost at the glacier foot. There is a wide 

 stretch of flat vegetation between the shore and the hills 

 to the west, and I could find no evidence that the glacier 

 was advancing upon it. The current of this glacier is 

 now setting in an easterly direction, as I shall presently 

 show. A result of this changed direction (if the direction, 

 as I feel convinced, has changed) is that that which was 

 once a terminal moraine is now a lateral moraine, if con- 

 sidered in relation to the main stream of the glacier ; and 

 evidence is not wanting to show that the old moraine is 

 now partly overlaid by the thin lip of the glacier's edge, and 

 that the debris which falls to the front is actually falling side- 

 ways as the glacier moves. This western side of the glacier 

 over which I walked for some distance is not broken, nor 

 much crevassed, but is a system of smooth undulations and 

 of glacier lakes. 



