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of the point, hoping thus to obtain a view both of the ijord and of 

 the land west of it, but getting there was not so easy as we had 

 thought, for every ridge we climbed brought us in sight of a still 

 higher one, which completely shut out the view. There must be 

 an end to these ridges some time or other, we thought, and so we 

 tramped on all day long, across country strewn with boulders and 

 covered with newly-fallen snow, but eventually we had to turn our 

 faces homewards, with our object unaccomplished. 



