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Inlet or undertake a geological examination of Kuhn 

 Island and finish our trigonometrical survey. 



On the 19th therefore Payer, with Herzberg and Wagner 

 cHmbed to a steep snow-field, then over a mountain steep 

 which with rugged walls of gneiss fell in a mountain 

 ridge towards Ardencaple Bay, the highest point of 

 which we reached after a three and a half hour's march. 



Clear weather favoured the extensive and highly in- 

 teresting view from the Sattelberg and the Pendulum 

 Island, as far as the northern edge of Koldewey Island. 

 For eight hours we were able to sketch the whole of the 

 panorama, and Complete the triangle of our trigonometrical 

 measurement. Ardencaple Inlet, far below us, was as 

 well as Fligely Fjord covered with an uninterrupted sheet 

 of snow, the nature and depth of which Tramnitz had 

 undertaken to investigate; the large Fjord opening in 

 the north-west corner of Ardencaple Bay we could follow 

 from our standing point for at least fifty miles ; it then 

 seemed to curve inwards to the west, but thus far it lay 

 as if sketched upon a map. At its exit west from the im- 

 posing and evidently crystalline mountain mass of Cape 

 Klinkerfues, the Wildspitze, and the Matterhorns, lay 

 countless icebergs enclosed. The existence of large 

 glaciers in this Fjord could not be doubted, though few 

 were visible. 



The snow surfaces between Kuhn and Shannon Islands 

 were divided into two parts by a sharp line, the nearer 

 one distinguished by its smoothness, and the further one 

 by its undulatory character. But appearances were de- 

 ceitful; for the smooth surface consisted of perfectly 

 soft snow. 



The increasing difficulties of advancing, the decrease 



