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CRUISE OF STEAMER CORWIN IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN". 



feet high and extend to the base of the mountains as a gently-inclined plain, with a width in 

 some places of 2 or 3 miles. 





GRANITE HOCKS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF SAINT LAWRENCE ISLAND, 



< >F ICE SHEET. 



HoWINti EFFECTS OF OVEBSWKEPING ACTION 



Similar morainal deposits were also observed on the American coast at Golovin Bay, Kotz- 

 ebue Sound, Cape Prince of Wales, and elsewhere. At Cape Prince of Wales the formation rises 

 in successive well-defined terraces. 



The peninsula, the extremity of which forms East Cape, trends nearly in au easterly direc- 

 tion from the mainland, and consequently occupies a specially telling position witb reference to 

 ice moving from the northward. I was therefore eager to examine it and see what testimony 

 it might have to offer. We landed during favorable weather on the south side at a small Eskimo 

 village built on a rough moraine, and pushed on direct to the summit of the watershed, from 

 which good general views of nearly all the surface of the peninsula were obtained. 



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WEST DIOMEDE ISLAND, FROM THE NORTH. 



