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150 to 200 feet above the sea, and divided into three ter- 

 races, with very steep escarpments. On Stony Island, 

 toward.^ the east, was a small short beach between two 

 trap hills, and a much higher one was on the northern 

 side ; on an island perhaps twenty-five miles north of 

 Domino Harbor was a beach at least lOo feet high and 

 facing west. Indeed it looked as if the entire coast and 

 islands had just risen from the sea, while above the for- 

 mer level of the ocean, when at its highest point, the 

 hills were strewn with bowlders. 



We now passed larger banks of snow than had here- 

 tofore been observed : one in Mullein Cove on the south 

 side of Cape North appeared to be nearly a quarter 

 of a mile long. Cape North is a bold headland, fully 

 400 feet high, faced with rude, jagged trap rocks, and 

 within composed of gneiss ; and on the south side a 

 low raised beach, with large trap islands opposite, called. 

 Greely Islands. We then pass Cape Nol)]e, with its 

 overhanging cliffs and a fine deep harbor ; near it are 

 " The Sisters," two low, flat islands, one with a trap dyke 

 passing through the middle, the other one half black trap 

 rock, the vegetation on it of a bright green, clinging to 

 the black debris of the volcanic rock. From this point- 

 we could again see the ice to the northeast moving out 

 to sea. After passing Long Island head, which seemed 

 to be of red syenite and about 400 feet high, we sailed 

 by Huntington Island, a noble mass of volcanic rock 

 perhaps 500 feet high, with an evergreen growth seen in 

 the bays indenting its shores. 



On the mainland a large fire was raging, probably 

 set by the Indians; the sky to the westward and all 

 about us was lurid with the smoke. Here also we felt 



