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a garden with many dainty little flowers about six inches high, 

 which forced their way between the stones. Here v/ere the Ice- 

 land poppy {Papaves radicatuni), Saxifraga oppositifolia, either 

 pink or white and with a delicate odor, Pedicularis lanata, Poten- 

 'tilla emarginata, and Pulchclla, and Cerastium FAmonstoni, these 

 last three very hairy, Diyas octopetala, a Draba, perhaps lap- 

 ponica, and Cassiope tetragona making quite a turf or bog where 

 melting snow was near it, and with it the tiny Salix retusa. 

 There were a number of mosses but none with fruit, and I 

 brought back specimens of only Polytrichum gracile, Hypjium 

 uncinatum, and of Gnmmias not yet identified. The Pedicidaris 

 lanata was most beautiful growing on the very edge of a snow 

 bank, nestled in between the stones and daintily protected by its 

 veil of grey hairs, through which the pink of the waiting flowers 

 shone. 



Many of the climbers achieved the summit of the nearest 

 mountain, and it was appallingly steep as we looked at their prog- 

 ress from below, over the sliding, wet stones, with no ledges or 

 trees to afford a foothold and a deep ravine with a milky river 

 rushing far below them. When they were ready to come down 

 they sat down on the snow and coasted, and we on a much lower 

 shoulder found it the best way to get over the half melted banks 

 we encountered. The light for taking photographs was better at 

 I A. M. than it had been twelve hours earlier when we came into 

 the bay, and we all stayed up to see the weighing of the anchor 

 and the sun at our northernmost point of the trip ; and indeed, it 

 was the night of nights to stay up there was so much that was 

 beautiful and strange to see. 



. Later in the morning we woke at Bell Sound, a favorite harbor 

 of whalers, where three or four immense glaciers empty into one 

 little bay. Here again we had marvellously clear skies and were 

 deceived as to distances, so opinions varied as to the breadth and 

 height of the glaciers, whether two miles or five, and forty feet 

 or one hundred in height. Unfortunately there was not time 

 to walk on any of the glaciers. Perhaps the Captain felt 

 such weather was too good to last long, so we sadly bade adieu 

 to the regions of clean snow and magnificent distances, and in a 



