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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [March 
Discovery, Morning, and the Pyramid up the Koettlitz. 
Lister itself, as usual, was in the clouds, but nearly all 
below was visible. We could see numerous hinterland 
ridges reaching from the Lower Koettlitz to the Lister 
scarp, and satisfied ourselves that no lateral ' Snow 
Valley ' existed below the scarp such as has been indicated 
in earlier maps. 
It was very cold on this hill (which we called Terminus 
Mountain) ; and after swinging the theodolite and taking 
several photographs we hurried back to the tent down 
Ward V alley. 
On March 2 we started our homeward trek ; nothing 
could be worse than our outward track up the middle of 
the glacier — though we were able to study the changes 
of the glacier ice and so did not regret it. I therefore 
decided to hug the coast on our return, though near the 
depot the ice was so full of silt from the moraines that we 
had not seen any feasible route along the coast thereabouts. 
For the next few days we followed the course of the 
sub-glacial Alph river. Some four miles down stream 
from Terminus Camp a rampart of ice pinnacles com- 
menced, which recalled the monoliths of Stonehenge. 
These walled off the rough sea of the Koettlitz Glacier from 
the frozen surface of the ' river.' This broad lane was here 
a quarter of a mile wide and consisted of a level surface 
broken up by deep sunken ^ paths.' The more elevated 
areas were preferable for sledging, for the paths occasionally 
let us through into water. The whole structure was due 
to the drainage of water away from rivers and lakelets 
whose surface had frozen. 
