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before D'Urville and Wilkes. Ringgold estimates the 

 height of the ice walls in the interior of the bay to be 

 about 150 feet, whilst D'Urville states it to be in the 

 north 100 to 150 feet, and also notices that the outlines 

 follow a somewhat irregular course. The western coast 

 of the country, which stretches, as has already been 

 pointed out, far to the south, seems not to be different 

 in character from the rest. 



The next piece of land that was seen was " North's 

 Highland," separated from the rest by " Porpoise Bay," 

 and also surrounded by a lofty ice barrier, exhibiting, when 

 Wilkes visited it, a very irregular course towards the west. 

 In the same direction the land gradually passes into 



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View of the coast of Clarie from a distance of six nautical miles (after Dumont 



d'Urville). 



" Sabrina Land," first discovered by Balleny, and desig- 

 nated in its western part by Wilkes as " Totten's High- 

 land". Here is, once more, a large gap on our maps, 

 due to the prevalence of fog and snowstorms, which 

 caused Wilkes to lose sight of both land and ice barrier. 

 On the other hand there is farther to the north " Budd's 

 Highland," a lofty mountain chain, which exhibits a 

 greatly varied configuration, notwithstanding its being 

 wholly enveloped in snow. Here the coast seems to 

 recede somewhat to the south, but soon afterwards it 

 resumes its east to west direction. Wilkes named this 

 section " Knox's Highland ". This coast, sighted in 

 66° S. and 106° 19/ E., probably extends for a distance of 



