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up, and took nearly the whole afternoon to dig out. At 

 three the next morning we climbed the mountain and 

 built a cairn. It was wonderfully fine, at --4° Fahr. 



The cairn built on Church Point station on the 7th 

 was just visible, but the direction went so straight over 

 the slope of the Kefersteinberg that we feared we should 

 have some difficulty in seeing it. 



By four p.m. we were again in the tent, and then 

 started for the Kronenberg, part of our way lying along 

 one of those long islands of which there are so many in 

 Clavering Straits, and between Sabine and Pendulum 

 Islands. Here, as there, they were composed of huge 

 rocky masses of vertical plates of basalt, from nine to 

 twelve feet in length. At half-past eight p.m. we raised 

 our tent at the foot of the Kronenberg, where to our 

 great joy we could see the newly-built cairn on the 

 Hiilinerberg with the naked eye. 



The next day we climbed the mountain, and were 

 astonished to find yellow sandstone, while the whole 

 crown consisted of beautiful vertical plates of basalt. 

 The sandstone covers the whole of the upper part, and 

 contained the remains of some carbonized plants. Upon 

 this march Dr. Copeland's eyes were severely tried by 

 snow-blindness, as also the boatswain's. On our return 

 journey we enjoyed a beautiful sight. The sun was 

 already low on the north-west horizon, so that the whole 

 of the straits and the mountains of the mainland were in 

 deep shadow. Only the steep cHffs of the Hasenberg 

 shone in a purple glow, contrasting strangely with the 

 azure blue of the sky and the fixed deadly whiteness of 

 the snow. The colouring was sometimes so intense that 

 one might fancy the basalt rocks were in a red glow of fire. 



