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had been plain to see, for the snow was almost all melted 

 away ; but even could I have passed this crevasse I could 

 have gone little! farther, for between the point and "the col 

 the glacier was covered with snow. 



Although I was unable to^ reach it I could see the col 

 against the sky-line a mile or so farther on, and I have no 

 doubt that this will some day prove the passage to Wijde 

 Bay. By the time I returned to camp I was ready to sleep, 

 as I had walked for twenty-one hours that day. 



July 22. Wind NW., cold and sunless. — On this day 

 we left Dome-View Camp at 9.30 p.m. for the Flower-Garden. 

 We stopped by the way to take sketches of the bay under 

 Lyktan, where we could not land because of the shallows, 

 though we landed again at a point lower down, as marked 

 on the map. Here lies a clear little bay and a deep water. 

 I will now describe the leading features of the eastern side 

 of Dickson Bay. 



Owing to the peculiar form of the weathered limestone 

 rock which overlies the Devonian, the tops of the hills on 

 both sides of the bay bear fantastic resemblances to castles 

 and crowns, and other objects. Thus Lyktan was so named 

 by Stjernspetz from its resemblance to the lantern of a light- 

 house. In the valley which lies about its base there is a 

 central mountain resembling a Moorish citadel, and another 

 not unlike the Taage. From this valley three dales branch, 

 one to the north-east, one to the east, and a third to the 

 south-east. The entrance to the third is from the bay only 

 just visible where it leaves the second of these three. 



The bedding of these mountains inclines towards the 

 south-west, the red Devonian being gradually lost until 

 in the long Table Mountain marked on the plan it appears 

 only as buttresses about its base. Again towards the south 

 the grey limestone is overlaid with seams of chert, and these 

 again by yellow rock of dolomitic character. The spit 



