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northern boundary, to spread out' into a little delta as it 

 reaches the bay. The western side of the glen at its 

 widest part is occupied by a yellowish-grey carboniferous 

 limestone hill, overlying a base of red Devonian, very curi- 

 ously hollowed out, and resembling a gigantic arm-chair, 

 so that I called it the " Giant's Chair." 



From the seat of this chair, which was partly filled with 

 snow, two large avalanches of stones poured down with 

 a loud noise. 



July 20. Wind SW. Bar. 30.50. Ther. 72 Fahr. in sun 

 at ten a.m. — Piled on the beach of the glen was very much 

 drifted wood, and we were able to build with this and the 

 sail of the boat a place to sleep in. 



The morning broke clear and sunny. I climbed to 

 near the summit of the Red Hill, 1100 feet by aneroid, and 

 inspected the head of the bay. Red Hill is the first moun- 

 tain on the western side of the bay, entirely of red Devonian. 

 Thence to the north all are Devonian, or only the highest 

 peaks are capped with carboniferous rock. 



Not only is this red colour in itself most striking, but 

 the purples played upon it by the sun are intense, and give 

 a peculiar beauty to the whole head of the bay. 



In trying to go northwards from this point we narrowly 

 escaped running aground. Thereafter we touched ground 

 several times, and had much difficulty in getting off. We 

 could not punt, because the floor of the bay was of the 

 softest boulder-clay, so we pulled through the mud inch 

 by inch. A very considerable portion of even the upper, 

 navigable part of the bay is exceedingly shallow, up to 

 the point where the bottom suddenly rises by an escarp- 

 ment some two feet high, and becomes a tidal mud-flat 

 quite exposed at low water. W T e eventually worked our 

 way across, and camped at the point I have marked in 

 the map as Dome- View Camp. 



