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the piled-up pressure blocks. I remember one of the nature 

 of a " glacier-table." A flat-domed slab some three feet across, 

 was perched on a slender support above the floe. Pendant 

 from the table were numerous long icicles, consequent on the 

 warm weather. The under surface of the table, owing to 

 repeated reflection, was a beautiful ultramarine, which was 

 seen through the curtain of icicles, and the whole structure 

 reminded me of one of those resplendent medusae which float 



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Course of Terra Nova through the Antarctic pack, as far as Cape Evans, 

 from December 7, 19 10, to January 4, 191 1. 



placidly on the sea, with their tentacles hanging from the 

 fringe of the " umbrella." Hereabouts the floe became 

 thinner and more uniform. It was broken into wide sub- 

 angular surfaces, with vertical sides, as when a sheet of" short- 

 bread " is broken for consumption. At nine o'clock we 

 entered a wide lane where the placid water we had encountered 

 hitherto was replaced by an area of short choppy waves. Then 

 an area of " pancake," with rounded outline and upturned 



