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melt, thus protecting the ice against the direct rays of the sun, and some 
do even not melt at all durmg the summer, but being watersoaked at 
the end of the summer they freeze to ice and thus form a part of the 
hummocks, which in that manner get an oblong shape, the length of 
which depends entirely on the height of the hummock; the higher the 
hummock, the longer it becomes. 
The many parallel river-courses were passed during the early half of 
the day, and though the surface became a little better, it was still dif- 
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The ice apparently 
very much better 
A in this direction. я 
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ers a towards East. 
hill, which had hitherto 
ENN kid our view to the north. 
Reached the ton of a large 
an 
T.3% The surface very rough, but no deep 
Depot 230 watercourses, aid some Snow. 
The surface exceedingly rough. 
TEE Le noe aa E-W and #-5 meters deep 
The surface very rough, almost srombare 
No flat stretches at all. 
‘and sloping Much sand, all over the ice. 
250 1 go Broad rivercourses. 
wards land, = 
very rough, 
ficult to take the sledges across, as the dogs could not find a footing on 
the quite smooth, snow-bare hummocks. 
The distance was but 4 miles with a rise of c: 10 metres, making 
a total elevation above sea-level of c: 260 metres. 
When we camped on the top of a high hill, which had hidden our 
view to the north for the last few days, we were able to see the conditions 
ahead. They seemed good, but not till we had passed the ice just in 
front of us — a narrow belt, intersected by river-courses, which were 
running so close, that they were only divided from each other by an 
ice-ridge. Further away, on the other side of this belt, a tongue of ap- 
parently good ice was stretching as far as the horizon, bordered on either 
side by apparently impassable ice. 
