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conical heaps and with lakes in all the little valleys. 
The noise of running water from a lot of streams sounded 
very odd after the usual Antarctic silence. Occasionally 
an enormous boulder would come crashing down from 
the heights above, making jumps of from 50 to 100 feet 
at a time. 
January 30. — Another fine morning, so after break- 
fast we started for the south end of ' Black Ridge,' from 
which place we could get a view up the Priestley Glacier. 
Arriving there about i o'clock we found we were cut off 
from the moraine by a barranca from 40 to 50 feet deep. 
The glacier itself seemed an important one, judging by 
the disturbance it made in the piedmont where it flowed 
in, large undulations and big crevasses extending many 
miles out. 
Although not so steep as Corner Glacier, it was much 
more crevassed, but what decided us to try Corner Glacier 
was that the Priestley Glacier curved from a S.W. direction, 
which would have taken us off our course. Accordingly, 
after I had secured a round of angles, we steered for the 
foot of the icefalls of the Corner Glacier, getting there 
about 5 P.M. After hoosh we left camp standing and 
climbed the glacier, which proved a very easy job, as, 
although steep and broken, the seracs are worn smooth 
and many of the crevasses filled in, which looks as if 
there was very little movement now. 
Arriving at the top of the first icefall we found our- 
selves on rather a steep broken surface, the valley running 
in a north-westerly direction for a few miles, where it 
was fed by several steep glaciers or ice cascades from 
