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On the 25th of April, Lockvvood with Brainard and 

 Christiansen left Conger to attempt to cross Grinnell Land 

 to the western ocean. They had a team of the best ten 

 dogs, and provisions to last thirty-one days. A supporting 

 sledge was to accompany them for two marches. Lock- 

 wood's fourth camp was situated about 67 miles from 

 Conger. Lieutenant Archer in 1876, with an eight-man 

 sledge, took fourteen days to do the same distance. This 

 illustrates the great difference between sledging with dogs 

 and with men. 



From Archer Fiord, Lockwood passed along the Ella 

 Valley to the base of a glacier 150 feet above the sea. 

 The glacier stretched from side to side of the valley, and 

 was found impassable. Lockwood next decided to try the 

 route via Beatrix Bay. From the head of this bay they 

 passed along a valley to its termination, and then had to 

 turn off to the north up a steep rocky ravine. Here 

 the large sledge had to be left, and a small one 

 brought specially for land-travelling was afterwards used. 

 From this camp they started for Musk-ox Valley on 8th 

 May. The following day's march carried them to the 

 apparent end of the valley, and they then entered a canon 

 which seemed to end in a glacier 8 or 10 ten miles distant ; 

 but as no other route seemed possible it was followed. 

 This canon took them into a broad valley with a lake in 

 its centre. The wall of a glacier apparently rose all along 

 the south side of the valley, and the country behind 

 seemed one continuous glacial surface. Travelling in a 

 south-west direction, they found the ice-capped land pre- 

 sented to their view a vertical face of solid ice from 125 feet 

 to 200 feet in height. This wall of ice ran across the 

 country in such a manner that Lockwood named it " The 

 Chinese Wall Glacier," but later it was designated Mer de 

 Glace Agassiz. The next march brought them to the 

 watershed of Grinnell Land. They now descended a 



