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the glacier, and having had to swag our things from this point, we arrived 
too late, and were too heavily laden to make any attempt to get to the 
southern side to camp as had been our original intention, so we pitched our 
tent at the foot of the northern spur. 
The elevation of the terminal face of the glacier ioni the sea by aneroid 
measurement I found to be 660 feet. 
From the northern edge of the Fox Dice a spur rises very abruptly to 
an elevation of about 5,000 feet, and separates the Francis Joseph Glacier 
from the Fox, the summit of this spur in the summer time being only 
capped with patches of snow. 
On the southern side of the Fox there is another spur-range, er 
attains a somewhat greater elevation than that to the north, the highest 
point being, by aneroid measurement, about 6,500 feet above the level of 
the sea, the general elevation of the spur being about 5,500 feet. 
The next morning we started on our way across, and found considerable 
difficulty in getting over owing to the manner in which it is crevassed, 
involving many journeys backwards and forwards up the glacier, in addition 
to which, in three separate cases, we had to eut steps in the ice to ascend 
or descend as oecasion required. ; 
We got across eventually, and spent the day in examining the rocks 
which occur in the Conical Hill and in travelling for a distance of perhaps 
two miles up the southern lateral moraine. 
On the southern side of the terminal face of the glacier is a hill called 
the Conical Hill, on the southern side of which a stream runs, delivering 
its waters into the Cook River and rising from the glacier about a mile 
above its terminal face, also deriving a good deal of its water from mountain 
torrents which fall from the spur-range to the south of the glacier. 
Up this creek we went until getting into the lateral moraine; and ata 
point about 14 miles up the glacier came to one of the before-mentioned 
mountain torrents. 
We went some little distance up this, and found that, although rough 
climbing, it was quite practicable to ascend it, at least as far as we could 
see, so we decided to try this direction for our ascent of the hills next day. 
We returned to our camp that night, and the next morning started with 
daylight, having by this time become more familiar with the way across the 
glacier, which we crossed in about half-an-hour, and then pushed on to the 
before-mentioned stream. Up this we started, and made pretty good 
travelling for some time, ascending along the bed of the creek to an altitude 
of 4,000 feet, a considerable amount of the travelling requiring the use of our 
hands far more than feet. When we reached this elevation we left the bed 
of the creek, and, after a rough scramble, got on to a slope covered with - 
