116 ADVENTURES IN THE NORTHERN SEAS. 



of a total length of about three and a half miles, 

 by 200 to 400 yards broad, and 20 to 30 feet high : 

 the entrance between the two portions of the mo- 

 raine was not more than 300 or 400 yards in width. 



How I wished for an hour of Professor James 

 Forbes to elucidate the mystery to me of this gla- 

 cier being so far distant from the moraine, the ex- 

 istence of which had so evidently been caused by 

 great immediate pressure from the glacier. There 

 appeared not to have been any contact between 

 them for a long period, as mosses and other little 

 Arctic plants were growing on the moraine. I also 

 picked up specimens of several kinds of shells on 

 the moraine. 



In cutting up these large seals, I found the stom- 

 achs of several of them containing a bushel or so 

 apiece of small fish about five or six inches long, 

 and resembling young cod. 



I believe there are no fish of any size in the Spitz- 

 bergen seas, for we tried often with hook and line, 

 and never caught a single one. 



