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at first appeared as a range of ordinary hills along the river, 
proved on landing to be an ancient terminal moraine, crescent 
d, and covered with a forest. It extends the full length 
full view of the ice cliffs of the end of the glacier, rising before 
us like a wall, but separated from the moraine by a second belt 
ng e crossed 
comparatively unbroken slope of ice at the foot of the bluff, and 
afterward hak to climb over snow and ice only, in the attempt to 
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to be quite possible to accomplish this if we followed the least 
broken part of the slope, but it proved to be difficult, ~ anal 
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tance were met at intervals, some of them being so wide that we 
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and broken into irregular stair-like blocks with smooth sides 
and so large that it was impossible to make our way over them 
