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edge, and the patches of land seem as rare as the sum¬ 
mer’s snow on the hills about Sukkertoppen and Fisk- 
ernaes. On the right we have an array of cliffs, 
whose frowning grandeur might dignify the entrance 
to the proudest of southern seas. I should say they 
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would average from four to five hundred yards in 
height, with some of their precipices eight hundred feet 
at a single steep. They have been until now the Arctic 
pillars of Hercules; and they look down on us as if 
they challenged our right to pass. Even the sailors are 
impressed, as we move under their dark shadow. One 
