256 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [December 
cuff — so we named it Cuff Cape. We found it a very 
interesting spot with moraines, rock-striae, perched blocks, 
and other evidences of past ice action in great profusion. 
The next few days we explored and mapped a head- 
land which we called the Flat Iron from its resemblance 
to the sky-scraper of that name. On its southern face 
was a deep bowl-shaped bay with a little hanging glacier 
at the back, and possessing a dry gravelly beach. Here 
in the Devil's Punch Bowl beneath the Devil's Thumb 
we stayed till December 23. 
It was a grand collecting ground. Almost every 
variety of granite, diorite and gabbro occurred on the 
Flat Iron. Debenham found a great ' dyke ' of marble 
included in the granites, and containing large specimens 
of natrolite, pyroxene, and amphibolite. The New 
Glacier had only just ceased to cascade over the Devil's 
Ridge into the Punch Bowl, and the condition of this 
narrow granite ridge exposed after its submergence by 
a huge glacier was of extreme interest to the physio- 
grapher. 
There were several pretty little tarns on the slopes, 
and Gran celebrated Midsummer Day by a dip, in which 
I would willingly have accompanied him but for my 
disabled hand. 
Towards the end of this trip I began to be able to 
read my own left-hand writing. Unfortunately no one 
else has succeeded in doing so, and I find that the meaning 
of many (no doubt) most valuable notes is now lost to 
me also ! 
By Christmas Day we were back at Cape Geology 
