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of being bound by a rope to his companions, seeks his way 
over the blinding-white, almost velvet-like, surface of this 
snow-field, hard packed indeed, but bound together by no 
firm crust. If a man, after taking necessary precautions against 
the danger of tumbling down into these crevasses, betakes 
himself farther into the country in the hope that the apparently 
\IEW FROM THE INLAND-ICE OF GREENLAND. 
After a draAving by S. Berggren, 23rd July, 1870. 
even surface of the snow will allow of long day’s marches, he is 
soon disappointed in his expectations; for he comes to regions 
where the ice is everywhere crossed by narrow depressions, 
canals, bounded by dangerous clefts, with perpendicular walls 
up to fifteen metres in height. One can cross these depressions 
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