1875 



EVANS GLACIER. 



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about a mile of the 

 sea, named after Mr. 

 John Evans, F.E.S., 

 the President of the 

 Geological society. 



Cape Hawks, 

 forming the west 

 point of Dobbin Bay, 

 is a specially fine head- 

 land rising to a height 

 of 1,400 feet. As we 

 rounded it the wea- 

 ther was extraordi- 

 narily calm, and every 

 detail of the rich 

 brown of the rocky 

 cliffs was purely re- 

 flected in the now 

 broad water-channel, 

 the substance and re- 

 flection being pictu- 

 resquely divided by 

 the white horizontal 

 belt formed by the 

 ice-foot at its base. 

 It was justly com- 

 parable to the Eock 

 of Gibraltar. Such 

 was the smoothness 

 of the water that Lieu- 

 tenant May obtained 

 an excellent meridian 



