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extract a piece of a jaw-bone*, tolerably 

 sound, and as large as a man could carry. 



I sent my attendant back to the boat with 

 this trophy, and I walked to the top of a 

 steep hill, to have a good look along the 

 straits, to see if there was no appearance of 

 the eastern ice coming through. From the 

 height I was on, I must have seen nearly to 

 the east end of the straits, but they seemed 

 quite clear of ice throughout their entire 

 length. There were two considerable glaciers 

 some miles down the straits, one on each side, 

 and both protruding into the sea. 



Por several miles about me, both to the 

 east and west, there extended the most beau- 

 tiful piece of country to the eye of a deer- 

 stalker, which I ever beheld. To the east 

 there lay a low flat plain, green with succu- 

 lent mosses, and not less than ten thousand 

 acres in extent ; this plain gradually contracted 

 in breadth, until below where I stood, it was 

 only about a mile broad between the hills 

 and the straits, and here it was intersected 

 with dry water-courses, and ridges, and dykes 

 of trap rocks, affording admirable stalking 



* Now in the Museum of the G-eological Society. < 

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