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distance of twenty miles from Distant Cape separates 

 into two arms. Conybeare Bay, the most northerly of 

 the two, does not seem to extend more than ten miles 

 to the west of the Keppel's Head ; it has not, however, 

 been thoroughly explored. The southern arm is 

 between four and five miles broad at the mouth, and 

 forty miles long, trending to the south-west, till at 

 Eecord Point it divides into the two small bays in 

 which the sound terminates. For the whole of its 

 length it is surrounded by steep precipitous cliffs, 

 which at the farther end are very high, being in one 

 place over 3,000 feet sheer. A considerable quantity 

 of the heavy Polar ice was met with till within a few 

 miles of the head of the bay. The remainder of the 

 ice was of a small lumpy description, with but few 

 young floes amongst it.' 



In the most southern of the two fiords at the head 

 of the sound a large glacier was observed in a valley 

 descending from the Victoria and Albert Mountains, 

 estimated to be 5,000 feet in height. The glacier 

 ended at a distance of about ten miles from the shore ; 

 its end was therefore considerably above the sea-level. 



In the northern fiord, Lieutenant Archer, after a 

 severe climb, which occupied him seven hours, reached 

 the summit of Mount Neville, 3,800 feet above the sea. 

 From that elevated point the United States Eange was 

 sighted to the W.N.W., and a glacier was discovered in 

 one of the valleys, but ending at a considerable height 

 above the sea-level; an extensive plain led from 

 Beatrix Bay some twenty miles inland to the foot of 

 the United States Eange. To the westward the moun- 

 tainous land was lower, estimated to be about 2,000 



