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The Monument Found. 



[April, 1S6S. 



getting to-day to the heights of land overlooking New Bay, Parry 

 Bay, Cape Crozier, and Fury and Hecla Straits, the sight of a New 

 Long Island to the westward, so carried me away that I Avas sweeping 

 to the right and left with my glass before I again had a thought of 

 monuments or other traces of the lost ones." 



On the 24th, the search was made for the monument and cache. 

 The monument was found and the place of the cache pointed out, but 



the latter ivas covered hy a huge hank of 

 snow. Hall thus describes the location 

 of the monument : " On either side of 

 the plain on which it stands is a river, 

 and hills of delta are northeast of it. 

 It is 100 feet above the sea, and near a 

 hill upon the south side of the plain. 

 The hill looks not unlike an inverted 

 whale-boat when seen at a little dis- 

 tance from the northwest." While he 

 made a sketch of the monument, 

 Frank Lailor, with an iron snow-knife, tried to cut down thi'ough the 

 bank to t!ie (-ache, but found the snow as hard as ice. 



To leave nothing undone to find the buried cache-stones. Hall 

 nriw moved down and built his igloo near it, and on the 25th renewed 

 witli Fiank Lailor, with some assistance from Ebierbing who was 

 suffering with rheumatism, the severe work of cutting down into the 

 snow-bank. They all labored hard for many hours, cutting down to 

 the depth of If) feet with their iron snow-knives, until, as Ebierbing 

 has lately said, " they sweated in the cold from licad to foot." ]5ut it 

 was impossiljlc to find tlie cache. 



MOXL'.Ml'NT FOUND BY HAIX. 



