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BARDEN BAY. 



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dozen dogs. Finding no anchorage ground in less 

 than forty-five fathoms, I ran into a bay on the south 

 shore immediately west of the Tyndall Glacier. The side 

 moraine near its end formed a steep ridge of rubble 

 between a smooth pebbly beach in the bay and the 

 glacier at the sea-level. In the north-east face we 

 observed a large cave, whose sides displayed the 



SMOOTH-TOPPED GLACIER IN BARDEN BAY. 



richest tints of blue darkening to blackness as the depth 

 of the cave receded to an unknown distance. 



The extremely rugged and broken up surface and 

 face of the Tyndall glacier, which projects far into the 

 sea, is in remarkable contrast to the smooth surface and 

 clean-cut perpendicular face of a smaller one near the 

 mouth of the bay which projects only a short distance 

 to seaward. We were extremely anxious to land, both 

 to examine the very interesting glacier and to communi- 



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