EXCURSION TO KLEIN PENDULUM. 



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Huge blocks of basalt lay around, one resting upon these 

 small stones, as if man's hand had placed it there for a 

 purpose. On the highest point of the south-easterly part 

 of one of the hills still stood a cairn built the autumn 

 before by Lieut. Payer, and this seemed to be the best 

 spot we could find on the Tellplatte. Traces of the 

 musk-ox were everywhere to be seen, and soon we saw 

 six full-grown animals and two calves. Returning in the 

 evening we found Iversen snow-blind. 



The next day, the 20th, so violent a south wind blew, 

 accompanied by fog, that we could do nothing but erect 



BLOCK OF BASALT. 



a depot ; about 250 lbs. of provisions and reserve clothing 

 were buried in different places in the rock, and stones 

 rolled against them. The coast here forms a small bay 

 about half a nautical mile broad. Along the strand were 

 numerous tent circles and many other signs, such as bones 



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