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WITH SCOTT: THE SILVER LINING 



When we reached the scarp facing up the valley to the west 

 the wind was tempestuous, so that we could not stand against 

 it, much less use the theodolite. We sheltered under the lee 

 of some projecting dykes of dark rock for some little time. 

 There came a lull, and almost before we got the theodolite 

 ready the gale had veered to the east — diametrically opposite 



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— and continued to blow almost as fiercely from that quarter. 

 This violent storm would have been unsupportable on the 

 Barrier, but the party in our camp below practically felt none 

 of it. Our apparent fine weather was due less to absence of 

 wind than to the absence of loose snow, and to the abundance 

 of shelter. 



I tramped to the south and found that the " Round Valley " 



