ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE AND RESEARCH 



of snow or ice, except a few small glaciers on the 

 steep slopes at the side and a few frozen drainage lakes 

 on the floor (see Figure 13). Carrying our food and 

 eear on our backs, we marched mile after mile down 

 this great valley which had never before been traversed 



Fig. 13. — Plan and section of Taylor Valley show- 

 ing TWO RIEGEL. 

 (Scale of miles.) 



by man. The floor was covered with tumbled debris 

 of all shapes and sizes of ground moraine, with here 

 and there patches of gravel and examples of soil-flow. 

 No better opportunity for studying the way in which 

 a great glacier has eroded the earth's crust can be 

 imagined, and many pages of notes and sketches re- 

 sulted from our journey down the Taylor Valley, which 

 will be referred to later in the chapter (see Figure 15). 

 One last glimpse will serve to show how the Ant- 

 arctic in 78° S. appeared in the middle of winter. On 

 the twenty-second of June, when the sun was farthest 



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