136 ENOEMOUS GLACIER. 



believed by them to attract the seals, that even 

 if I had never seen it succeed myself, I should 

 not consider myself at liberty to doubt it. 



We are still only a few miles north of Black 

 Point, and opposite a glacier extending into 

 the sea. Like all the other coast glaciers, 

 with few exceptions, it is only an arm or 

 branch of that vast body of solid ice which 

 occupies all the interior of the country, and 

 which, like an enormous centipede, extends its 

 hundred legs down nearly every valley to the 

 sea on both sides of the islands. 



There are threa glaciers on this part of 

 the coast between Black Point and Ryk-Yse 

 Islands. The two southmost ones are not 

 of any great size or in any way remarkable ; 

 they each have a sea-front of about three 

 miles, and protrude into the water for one and 

 a half or two miles in regular semicircular 

 arcs. 



The third or northmost of these three 

 glaciers is one of the largest and most remark 

 able in Spitzbergen, or perhaps in all the world. 

 It has a seaward face of thirty or thirty-two 

 English miles, and protrudes in three great 

 sweeping arcs, for at least five miles beyond 



