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quiet "bit of water. On March 1st like a millpond, though it was windy and 
rough out in the harbor. 
I do not particularly fancy the Bonaparte Point site because of its 
exceeding rockiness - large jagged, broken rocks, and a rather uneven 
gullied (or is it ridged) terrain. The Inlet, though a piece of very quiet 
water beautifully protected from wind and wave, might be a very dangerous 
plane. It narrows down to about 80 feet in width, and on the right hand 
side are ice cliffs of about that height. These have plenty of fissures, 
cracks, and crevasses. A fall of a mass of ice and snow could well spell 
disaster to any vessel that might find itself in the Inlet at the "right" 
(or would it be the wrong) time. Really, how very accessible is the 
piedmont here? 
Getting fresh water would be more of a problem than at Base N where 
it could be conveniently piped from the large and quite deep fresh water 
lake there. ho dam would be needed, the valley in which it lies could 
hold many times the present amount of water without damming; or much of 
one, but the supply of water seems ample for the needs of any station 
that might be established kh® here. 
Within walking distance and not near enough to be objectionable, to 
one side is a penguin rookery, on the other the bluff on top of which 
are situated the fresh wafer pools already referred to. A man needs to get 
about a bit for relaxation if for no other reason. At Bonaparte Point he 
could walk about on rocks and still not "be" or get anywhere. 
True, the boat landing is not of the best but it could as easily be 
