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PLATE CV. MOUNT EREBUS FROM THE S.-S.-W. 



FIG. 1 (Map B). From a photograph taken by Mr R. FORD (Fo. 147, \- plate), in the 

 summer months, Dec. 1902; looking N.-E. from Pram Point. 



FIG. 2 (Map B). From a photograph taken by R. W. SKELTON (Sk. 264, ^-plate), 

 Oct. 7, 1903 ; looking N.-E. from Pram Point. 



Both give a similar view of Mount Erebus taken from the area of ice-disturb- 

 ance near Pram Point, about three miles from our winter-quarters. Castle Rock 

 appears on the left, a black crag of palagonite tuff (Ferrar, Nat. Hist. Rep., vol. i., 

 p. 12) ; while on the right are seen the ice-hummocks of the Pram Point pressure 

 ridges (Ferrar, op. cit., pp. 59, 82), which were a favourite resort for Weddell Seals 

 in the breeding season, and served to shelter the new-born young. 



In the lower picture are seen a number of moraine terraces on the left, which 

 occur in many places along the coast of South Victoria Land, and afford ample 

 evidence of a far more extensive and far heavier ice-covering in the past than exists 

 at the present time. 



Note the small puff of condensed vapour which appears at the summit of 

 Mount Erebus in Fig. 1. 



