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This belt never melted completely, and was usually 

 fast to the shore. In fact it was that portion of the 

 sea-ice which was left behind each spring when the 

 general body of ice was broken up and swept away. 

 Referring to this, he writes : 



" The spot at which we landed I have called Cape 

 James Kent. It was a lofty headland, and the 

 land-ice which hugged its base was covered with 

 rocks from the cliffs above. As I looked over this 

 ice-belt, losing itself in the far distance, and covered 

 with its millions of tons of rubbish, greenstones, 

 limestones, chlorite, slates, rounded and angular, 

 massive and ground to powder, its importance as a 

 geological agent, in the transportation of drift, struck 

 me with great force. 



" Its whole substance was studded with these 

 varied contributions from the shore ; and further to 

 the south, upon the now frozen waters of Marshall 

 Bay, I could recognise raft after raft from the last 



