1875 VIEW FROM CAPE MORTON. Ill 



Mountains of Grinnell Land, fronted by Hans Island 

 showing clear of Cape Bryan, which had Hannah 

 Island nestling at its base. Farther north was the 

 lofty spur from the main range, which rising between 

 Archer Fiord and Kennedy Channel, forms Daly Pro- 

 montory, named after the learned President of the 

 United States Geographical Society. Fronting these 

 mountains and apparently separated from them by an 

 extensive valley extending to the northward from 

 Carl Eitter Bay, was the black buttress- shaped cliff 

 formiDg Cape Back, the southern extreme of a nearly 

 straight-running line of flat-topped coast hills ex- 

 tending for twenty miles to Cape Defosse. From that 

 point the coast land became more hilly and joining 

 the Daly Mountains extended to Cape Lieber, a bluff 

 headland, with Cape Baird a low flat point, jutting out 

 beyond it. Still farther north were the elevated 

 mountains of Grant Land, with the steep cliffs about 

 Cape Union, though seventy miles distant, distinctly 

 visible, forming the western extreme of Eobeson 

 Channel. Nearly due north a slight break in the 

 continuity of the land showed where Eobeson Channel 

 opened into the Polar Sea. On the eastern side of 

 the strait at a distance of forty miles, Cape Lupton, 

 a notable landmark, terminated Polaris Promontory; 

 then came Polaris Bay, with the low plains leading to 

 Newman Bay. At my feet lay Cape Tyson, and Cape 

 Mary Cleverley, on the northern shore of Petermann 

 Fiord, rising to an elevation of 1,500 feet. 



The southerly wind had left fairly open ice in 

 Kennedy Channel between our position and Cape 

 Lieber, with a large space of open water in Lady 



