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which so nearly closes the entrance to Dickson Bay 

 appeared to me, although I did not land on it, to be a car- 

 boniferous terrace denuded to that point. 



July 23. Wind N. to SE., clear, but no sun until night. — 

 After we reached the Flower-Garden at 4.50 a.m. I had so 

 much occupation with writing and specimens that I did 

 little else all day ; Conway during my absence had made some 

 most charming sketches. 



July 24. — We now moved to Glacier Camp, Conway and 

 Pedersen pulling in the boat, and I walking down to meet 

 them a distance of about nine miles. We spent .four days 

 in an examination of the head of Ekman Bay before we 

 finally left. 



July 24. Wind NW. Bar. 29.50. — Flies and mosquitoes. 



July 25. Wind NW. Bar. 29.60. Ther. 82 Fahr. in the 

 sun. — Mosquitoes bad. 



July 26. Wind NE. Bar. 29.65. Ther. 72 in the sun. — 

 Mosquitoes bad. 



July 27. Wind NE. Bar. 29.70. — Blew half a gale and 

 snowed. 



Early in this exploration I was able to solve the mystery 

 of the undiscoverable island. The Splendid Glacier is ad- 

 vancing at a rapid rate. \i now presents three fronts to 

 the sea, a south-western, a south-eastern, and an eastern 

 front. From these two latter faces the glacier rises in a 

 jagged area of seracs. Between the south-western and 

 south-eastern faces an apex juts boldly out into the sea, 

 and at the time of our visit two immense pinnacles reared 

 themselves from the water, all but separated to their 

 base from the main mass. This .double face of seracs, 

 pushed from behind [and undermined by the waves, is 

 constantly falling, so that approach in a boat would be a 

 dangerous experiment. The whole of the sea west of 

 the large island, shown by the survey to have existed 



