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entire island is a nmr of grasire. writ a ike exception of a patch of p> • mnwifa riliir Bear lie 1 1 aii i . ami aa> 



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grading action of the a alatu ktAMr. nates of which are here ptaiary sa w a asweDasoathe ih ar. : - 



-ka and down through Bering Strait soathward Vjaad Tii cwui astaad. Traces of Tie sah ac a aicas partial 

 glaciation it has bees sabjeeted to are also maaifested in glacial vaDeys of rsariihiaih. dead as i i—fii d wrrh. 

 t h * sice of toe islaad. I noticed roar of these, hiridff many amgia al siacial gioates. araand the sides, 

 remnant, with f-eb:e aeooa. still oeB aear the middle af the islaad, I also anil i d -- ired am 



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oat in the Pol r £ s a is* glacial anaatat 



While the top of the island was being examined in every direction by the party on shore 

 we cast off from the ice and steamed around to the north side, keeping dose to the island in- 



-nth and -de the ice was packed so hard against the shore 



that . ihroughit. Off the sooth west point it appeared .rounded and 



piled up for some miles, ind ." dnoal water in that direction. I was informed by Capt. F_ 



^mith that a shoal e: re npon which he saw ti breaking while riding oat a 



gale nnder the lee of the island during one of his whaling voyages. On the east and north we 



found 10 bar within half a cable length of the shore, and 3$ fa thorns bat a short 



of that. Herald Island - I fi miles long by 2 ts greatest 



-down by the aneroid barome: - - The baron: -era! times been 



known heig - \i& found to indicate correctly. It was compared on this occasion 



both before and :ion with the mercurial barometer, and this in tarn ha^ been 



compared with a standar . tS . eiseo before sailing, so that this result may be relied npon 



as very r. : :ect. 



La good is had of Wrangel Land. A 



Pro: - rg - :he magnetic Iworing te remities as south - - - 



.1 north ^ -. ~ -:. true. The contour of the eastern end of the 

 land was clearly defined, and about 40 m: - - at. bat farther away, on its north side, about 

 midnight a blue line appeared above the horizon, which was supposed by Professor M:: 

 land cx:~:.:.ing in that direction. Herald Island was first dk -- and 



nan - ship Herald. At the same time he saw Wran jei Land, but mistook the eastern 



cape for an island, which he named for H. B. M. ship Plover, then cruising north of P ■ - : rait. 

 In his report of the discovery of Herald - - - 



zX and on outside the thickest part of the loose ice, through which the bonis were obliged to he 

 careful is picking their way, on the southeast side, where I thoaght I aught have ascended. We peac h ed the 



M H. B. M. SHIP HX> " - v - . 



rnstaco« vakavaskadtraoaieacdBrfcTW. H-Danr. S.C.*aie. S w»s sakea tnai tae «c^aad sfcettft. maae 

 .r-tai. K<-Oen» ate »aiaf tart at tae ta— ate had was diaww e a .] 



island and found running on it a very heavy sea. The first lieutenant, however, landed, having hacked his beat in 

 until he could » 1 iien jumped overboard. I Sallowed his example aad others were 



any. - sea was - I ould not permit them. We hoisted the jack aad took pwrrri iaa 



of the island with the usual ceremonies in the name of her most graeioas Majesty Qaeea Victoria. The exter: 

 had to walk over was not more than 30 fret. From this space aad a short distance that we scrambled ap we collected 

 S x-imeus of the rock were also brought away. W::h the time we coald spare aad oar 

 materials the island was | - .accessible to as. This was a great ili ■pniiinlmi al as from - 



nnch coald have been seen and all donbt set aside, more particularly as I knew 

 the mome. t 1 ihwhl be obliged to carry sail to get off the pack aad oat of the bight of it we we-- 



nor could I expect that at this period of this season the weather would improve. The islaad oa which I landed - 



Berthold Seeinann. botanist of the Herald, these plants were Htfmtic i\M = «Ttr«m. and another 

 grass. J -:=-»««. foraafi*, GKftfcrW /eaeatrata, .San^raaa laawaaaiaaa, a moss, aad red lichen which covered the rock. 



