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GILACIUAIL, SICOIDIEES, JUN GIRIEIZINIZE NID WW 
THE REDCLIFF PENINSULA. 
From the north side of the deep inlet formed jointly by Mur- 
chison Sound and Inglefield Gulf, McCormick Bay sets back to 
the northeast, while Bowdoin Bay, which lies to the east of it, 
sets back to the northwest. The result of these convergent 
courses isto bring the heads ofthe two bays near each other 
and to enclose a sub-triangular area whose three sides may b e 
roughly taken as fifteen miles in length. Between the heads of 
the bays the ground is lowand partially occupied by lakes which 
gives further emphasis to the peninsular character, for the most 
of the area is a plateau and this low tract has the moral effect of 
a partial disseverance. The margin of this plateau to a width 
varying from a few rods to perhaps three miles is bare of ice, 
except as glacial tongues intrude upon it. This portion reaches 
about 2000 feet in height. The central portion of the plateau 
is covered by an ice-cap, which, according to Lieutenant Peary, 
mounts up to 4000 or more feet in altitude. Whether this means 
thiaimtne 1CenssZOOOmect tick On that umes landsbeneath the Tee 
swells upward is a matter of uncertain interpretation. The con- 
figuration of the summit favors the view that the land partic- 
ipates in the increased elevation tosome notable degree, but the 
iceis obviously thick. From this ice-cap tongues creep down 
into the valleys on all sides of the peninsula. They even descend 
to the northward upon the low neck connecting the peninsula 
with the mainland. Two of these ice-tongues on the south, two 
on the east, and one on the north were examined at hand. The 
others were only cursorily seen at greater or less distances. 
Local ice-caps while almost immeasurably inferior to the inland 
mer de glace in general interest and significance are nevertheless 
in certain respects not only equal but even superior to it as fac- 
tors in glacial study. They define more sharply the limitations 
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