204 THENCH PLOUGHED BY ICEBERG. 



tion, that tlie coast-line is rising at the rate of 

 four feet per century. 



On this island I observed a further most in- 

 teresting proof of its elevation. This was a 

 sort of trench or furrow, of about one hundred 

 yards long, three or four feet deep, and about 

 four feet broad, which was ploughed up 

 amongst the boulders : it was about twenty 

 feet above the sea-level, and extended from 

 north-east to south-west, being exactly the line 

 in which the current-borne ice travels at the 

 present day, so that T presume there is 

 no doubt it must have been caused by the 

 passage of a heavy iceberg, while the island 

 lay under water. 



"We left the island about one o'clock to 

 inspect some small packs of floating ice, 

 and most unexpectedly I had one of the 

 most exciting afternoon's sport I enjoyed 

 the whole season, although it was attended 

 throughout with the most perverse bad luck. 

 As this was the last day on which we saw any 

 walruses at all, I will venture, even at the risk 

 of horrifying the sensitive reader, to give an 

 account of it in detail. 



"We first found five good bull-walruses on a 

 piece of ice ; four were sound asleep with their 



