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Island, that fallacious impressions were apt to be obtained even from a mile off. So 

 far as could be judged, the land area is wider and higher than in the case of Laurie 

 Island, and at the same time more extensively covered by ice, giving rise to appear- 

 ances suggestive of the Spitsbergen type of glaciation. On the north coast there 

 appeared to be an almost continuous ice-cliff on which stratification was visible, but 

 it is highly probable that the coast is not really so flat as it seems from a little 

 distance, and that there may be considerable areas free from ice. We found this 

 difference between the distant view and an actual survey of the north coast of Laurie 

 Island. Dr Bruce informs me that he observed beaches in front of some of the ice -cliffs 

 when off the coast on 22nd March 1903, so that some of the glaciers at all events end 

 at high-water mark, as in the case of those on Laurie Island. 



At the north end of Lewthwaite Strait, or Spencer's Straits of Weddell, near Cape 

 Bennett, a type of glacier was noted of which no example was found on Laurie Island, 

 viz. a glacier tongue evidently coming from an ice-cap above, coming down a steep slope 

 with extensive cascading and crevassing (see Plate IX. fig. 2). 



Actually in Lewthwaite Strait, where we landed, the ice conditions looked very 

 similar to those which we subsequently found on Laurie Island. 



Other Islands. 



Dibdin's Island and Crutchley's Island are both large enough to nourish small ice- 

 sheets, and on the southern face of the eastern peak of Saddle Island there is a hanging 

 clift' glacier. 



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