PEABODY BAY. 
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alter. I give it as nearly as possible in his own words, 
without affecting any modification of his style. 
Sturton's Iflitnng. 
The party left Cache Island at 12.35 A. m., crossing 
the land-ices by portage, and going south for about a 
mile to avoid a couple of bad seams caused by the 
breakage of the glacier. Here Morton and Hans sepa¬ 
rated from the land-party, and went northward, keep¬ 
ing parallel with the glacier, and from five to seven 
miles distant. The ice was free from hummocks, but 
heavily covered with snow, through which they walked 
knee deep. They camped about eight miles from the 
glacier, at 7.45, travelling that night about twenty- 
eight miles. Here a crack allowed them to measure 
the thickness of the ice: it was seven feet five inches. 
The thermometer at 6 A. m. gave +28° for the tem¬ 
perature of the air; 29.2 for the water. 
They started again at half-past nine. The ice, at 
first, was very heavy, and they were frequently over 
their knees in the dry snow; but, after crossing certain 
drifts, it became hard enough to bear the sledge, and 
the dogs made four miles an hour until twenty minutes 
past four, when they reached the middle of Peabody 
Bay. They then found themselves among the bergs 
which on former occasions had prevented other parties 
from getting through. These were generally very 
high, evidently newly separated from the glacier. 
Their surfaces were fresh and glassy, and not like 
