264 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [January 
2000 feet. Then everything was covered by the broken 
columns of dolerite. I think, however, that hereabouts the 
sandstone layer was in situ^ and in view of the paucity 
of fossiliferous beds in Victoria Land, all such occurrences 
have an especial interest. 
I reached the top about 2 a.m. and found it 3000 feet 
above the tent. Gran soon appeared on the other peak, 
which the theodolite made 100 feet lower — much to his 
disgust ! 
The view was magnificent. A few feet away was a 
thousand-fcct precipice above the lower talus slopes. 
Out to sea we could see miles of open water, with floes 
drifting about therein, but it looked no nearer than a 
month ago. I guessed it 10 miles east of Cape Roberts 
(Pennell said tlie pack ice was nearer 30 miles wide). 
Some four miles to the south was a gap in the mountain 
wall where a low-level distributary glacier seemed to 
flow into the next great valley. The gigantic cliffs at 
each side were topped by natural forts composed of 
Beacon sandstones and shales. I have named this interest- 
ing glacier the Miller Glacier — while Debenham christened 
one to the north the Cleveland. He naively explained 
that his friends must have a large glacier because there 
were such a lot of them ! 
To the west, about ten miles away, was the ice plateau 
descending in ice falls and marked by two (rock) nunakols. 
There was apparently a fairly easy route to the ice plateau 
to the south of this nunakol — certainly shorter and 
probably not so crevasscd as the route via the Ferrar and 
Taylor glaciers. A very high mountain showed up to the 
