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WITH SCOTT: THE SILVER LINING 



out through the moraine in view of the frozen condition of 

 the moraine a few feet down. 



From the football fields we passed under the snout of 

 Lacroix Glacier. This ended in a vertical cliff of ice some 

 thirty feet high, which as usual rested on debris and moraine 

 material. 



This glacier was a beautiful example of an avalanche-fed 

 cliff glacier. There was very little connection between the 

 upper firm portion and the lower solid snout of the glacier, 

 the supply being maintained by occasional falls of ice over the 

 great granite cliffs separating the two portions. 



Below the snout there was a steep fall through boulders 

 and fragments of granite to the centre of the valley, and along 



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The avalanche-fed Lacroix Glacier in the Taylor Valley, February 7, 191 1. 



this slope hurried a pleasant little brook three feet across and 

 some three inches deep. It filled the air with as cheerful 

 murmurs as any stream in more favoured latitudes. Lying 

 among the moraines within the next few miles I counted no 

 less than thirteen dead seals in various stages of decay. This 

 fact was of some comfort to us, for we seemed to be ascending 

 continuously, and could see no seaward outlet to the valley. 

 Yet the seals had come through somewhere, and where they 

 could pass, so surely could we ! 



About three miles beyond Lake Bonney we reached the 

 water parting. The drainage from these high moraines was 

 partly into Lake Bonney and partly to the east. Beyond we 

 could see the valley contracting to a defile while striking knobs 



