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could hardly count on getting further than Wykoff Island — Prary’s 
last station — and even then we should after that have to be content 
with a cursory reconnoitring at great distances of the coast of Peary 
Land from 82°30’ and to the interior of Independence Sound. 
The journey across land had an enlivening effect, not only on 
us but also on our dogs. It is true that the bare spots of gravel, 
which we now and then had to cross, wore out the sledge runners 
and also the strength of the dogs, but on the other hand we were 
cheered up during our small geological, botanical and zoological 
investigations. The soil was shingle, nearest the beach as fine as 
clay, higher up somewhat coarser. The stones were granite, grey, 
brown, red, very rounded. A white shell was found on the beach 
up to 10m above the level of the sea. The shingle continued all 
over the headland, the greatest height of which above the level of 
the sea may be as of Point 17 (about 65m in the place where the 
determination of latitude was taken). Only quite close to the mountains 
did its character change, in that it became coarser, contained a good 
deal of erratic blocks (granite) and began to be covered with a thin 
layer of soil. 
The vegetation was very sparse at the shore, though much more 
prolific than I had seen it anywhere on the sledge trip. On the 
highest part of the headland itself it became perhaps rather more 
sparse, but close to the mountains, where the layer of soil began, it 
became, under the circumstances, luxuriant (cyperace&, saxifraga), 
and already at this early period it apparently began to penetrate 
through the snow. 
After having driven about ten kilometres on land, we saw the 
Determination of latitude 7/V 09; b = 761.0; t = — 12; о; hodo- 
meter distance from Station II 11.1km + 20. Direction a couple of 
degrees north of Pt. 16. Approximate altitude of telescope 65 m (see 
barometer and thermometer reading). 
Telescope left 
| Telescope right 
| É al 
| Vertical circle | | Hori- Vertical circle | | Hori- 
Watch K | Vernier Eee | zontal | Watch к | Vernier | FE | zontal 
| А |-B |Obs.|obj| circle | I В (Obs. Obj.) circle 
| = | i nn 
11h43m15s |293945'.8 | 46'.2 | 12.3 | 7.0 | 113028’ | 11h44m59s | 66°15.6 |15'9 2.8 | 8.0 | 113°58" 
46 26 46.1 | 46.5 | 12.0 | 6.9 | 114 18 | 48 04| 156 |15.9 26 | 8.0 | 114 46 
49 50 | 46.1 464 | 120 | 68| 115 11 51 10 | 159 | 16.2 | 2.6 | 80 
52 31 | 46.1 |464 | 12.0 | 6.8 | 115 58 | 54 08 | 158 | 16.0 |20 | 7.8 | 116 20 
55 44 46.1 | 46.4 | 12.0 | 7.0 | 116 45 | . 57 05 | 15.9 |16.1 | 23 | 7.7 | 117 08 
58 59 46.0 46.3 | 12.0 | 6.8 | 117 35 |12 02 23 16.2 |16.3 | 2-8 | 8.0 | 118 31 
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