36 
SCOTfS LAST EXPEDITION 
[July 
bad light when walking along the clifl tojxs looking for a 
way clown, but we had seen it from below [at a place 
where there was a break in the big ice clifT] and had 
decided lo try for it to-day. It took us down tlie right 
direction [twice we crept up to the edge of the cliff 
witli no success, but the tliird time we found tlic ridge 
down], and we got down directly in under the old land 
ice clills which still cover the more southern portions of 
the basalt clilTs of tlie Knoll. These ice cliffs are a monu- 
ment to what wind can do ; they are more than a hundred 
feet high in places and arc deeply scooped out into vast 
grooved and concave hollows as though by a colossal 
gcnige. \iy following along the foot of these weather- 
worn and dirty-banded old relics of glaciation one comes 
by a scries of slides and climbs and scrambles to quite 
recent exposures of dark rock cliffs which were not exposed 
when 1 was here ten years ago. 
Then, passing along the foot of these, one comes to 
more and loftier ice cliffs and more and still loftier rock 
cliffs, and along the very foot of tlicse, in among rock 
debris and snow drifts and frozen t]\aw pools, and boulders 
which have fallen into the trough, we had to walk and 
climb and slide and crawl in the direction of the sea ice 
rookery. [We got along till finally we climbed along the 
top of a snow ridge with a ra/or-back edge. On our 
right was a drop of great depth witli crevasses at the 
bottom : on our left was a smaller drop, also crcvassed. 
We crawled along : it was exciting work in the half dark- 
ness. At tlie end was a series of slopes full of crevasses, 
and finally we got right in under the rock on to moraine.] 
