264 British Antarctic Expedition. 
While the magnetic observers were busily 
employed in taking their set of observations, the 
rest of us ascended towards the high ridges of this 
“SOUTHERN CROSS” IN LADY NEWNES BAY. 
remarkable land. When we reached the crest some 
700 ft. up, we were startled by looking straight over a 
precipice into a huge cauldron, the bottom of which 
was even below the sea level, but guarded against 
the waters of the cove to the west by a narrow ridge 
of brimstone. The south-east part of this cauldron 
was formed by the straight broken base of Mount 
Melbourne, and revealed the most interesting geological 
structures, while at its top the ice sheet descending 
from the cone of Mount Melbourne was cleft, 
displaying the structure and depth of the ice sheet— 
some 50 ft. Shortly after we had landed, the ice pack 
