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THE ANTARCTIC. 



pensation of over-accuracy, prevents that acquaintance 

 with the external aspect of the country which might 

 otherwise have been gained. 



Above the whole sweep of the northern coast of 

 Victoria Land, east and west of North Cape, the elevated 

 chain of the Admiralty Range rises in innumerable 

 summits, frequently conical, and many attaining great 

 heights, according to the estimates and measurements 

 of Ross. In the west Mount Elliot above Yule Bay is 

 the highest ; in the east near Cape Adare Mount Sabine 



Mount Sabine and Possession Island (after Ross). 



rises 9,000 to 10,000 feet about thirty miles from the 

 coast. The whole mountain range is completely glaciated, 

 and the ice covering everywhere sinks into the sea, 

 indeed as has already been stated an immense ice barrier 

 extending west from Cape North, which it joins, here 

 reaches a height of 140 to 160 feet. The mass of ice 

 projects several nautical miles beyond the cape into the 

 sea, but of course it is not known how far the edge lies 

 beyond the actual land farther west. To the east of 

 the cape there certainly appears to be no unbroken belt 



