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PLATE LXX. ANTAKCTIC ICEBERGS. 



FIG. 1 (Map A). From a photograph by R. W. SKELTON (Sk. 45, |- plate), Feb. 1, 

 1902 ; showing an overturned and muddy iceberg off King Edward's Land. 

 Note the boat, with men collecting specimens, at the foot of the iceberg. 



FIG. 2. From a photograph by R. W. SKELTON (S. 108, 5" x 4" plate), Feb. 1904 ; 

 showing another overturned iceberg. 



Some streaks of brown and yellow mud in the overturned iceberg (Fig. 1) 

 were the first indication that we had left the clean, floating ice of Ross's Great 

 Ice Barrier, and were approaching a region where land-ice, or at least grounded ice, 

 might be expected. 



The surface of the Barrier was at this point obviously changing, and instead of 

 being flat away to the S. for an indefinite distance as heretofore, it now gradually 

 rose to form low, snow-covered eminences and long, rolling, ice-covered hills. The 

 surface now came into view, and appeared grey above the white ice-cliff (see Fig. 1, 

 Plate LXVIL), and this we now know was really the commencement of King 

 Edward's Land. 



