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ice near the shore drifted towards the south, the 

 floe to which we were secured moved with the pack 

 towards the north, and not wishing to be carried past 

 Maury Bay I cast off and again anchored inshore at 

 9 P.M. 



Captain Feilden, Mr. Hart, and I then landed, and 

 walked to the raised beach at the extreme of Cape 

 Frazer. It is situated 250 feet above the present sea- 

 level, and being the only one in the neighbourhood 

 renders the Cape conspicuous. 



After erecting a cairn and depositing a record of 

 our proceedings we returned to the ship with a rich 

 but extremely heavy burden of limestone fossils. 



Cape Frazer being subject to great pressure from 

 the pack in Kane's Sea, the ice-foot is of much the 

 same character as the ice-wall in the Polar Sea, but the 

 depth of water alongside it at low-water is only a few 

 feet ; the accompanying illustration from an excellent 

 photograph obtained by Mr. Mitchell when the water 

 had yet to rise two feet, shows the cliffy nature of the 

 sea-face. 



On the 24th we experienced calm weather, with a 

 temperature ranging between 35 and 39. The ice 

 in the offing was much less closely packed, although 

 to the southward of Cape Frazer it remained, as be- 

 fore, tightly pressed against the land. 



Expecting that the ebb-tide would carry the 

 inshore ice to the southward, as it did the previous day, 

 I started at one P.M. hoping to arrive at the cape before 

 high- water, ready to take advantage of any change ; 

 but none occurred, and we were again obliged to 



