184: DEEP AND CLEAR. 



high, perpendicular cliffs, and looking as if at any 

 moment it might crumble off, and fall with them in- 

 to the open water between it and the floating sea-ice. 



MORTON CLIMBING ON TO THE LAND-ICK. 



The sea here was very deep and clear. They 

 could see the bottom quite plainly, although a stone 

 they cast in, the size of a man's head, took twenty- 

 eight seconds to reach it. 



Being now afraid of the ice-ledge, they attempted 



