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into the fissure, so that they wedged each other in. 
They then filled up the spaces between the blocks 
with smaller lumps of ice as well as they could, and 
so contrived a rough sort of bridge to coax the dogs 
over. Such a seam would take about an hour and a 
half to fill up well and cross. 
On quitting the berg-field, they saw two dovekies in a 
crack, and shot one. The other flew to the northeast. 
Here they sighted the northern shore, (“West Land,”) 
mountainous, rolling, but very distant, perhaps fifty or 
sixty miles off. They drove on over the best ice they 
had met due north. After passing about twelve miles 
of glacier, and seeing thirty of opposite shore, they 
camped at 7.20 A. M. 
They were now nearly abreast of the termination 
of the Great Glacier. It was mixed with earth and 
rocks. The snow sloped from the land to the ice, and 
the two seemed to he mingled together for eight or ten 
miles to the north, when the land became solid, and 
the glacier was lost. The height of this land seemed 
about four hundred feet, and the glacier lower. 
June 21, Wednesday.—They stood to the north at 
11.30 p.M., and made for what Morton thought a cape, 
seeing a vacancy between it and the West Land. The 
ice was good, even, and free from bergs, only two or 
three being in sight. The atmosphere became thick 
and misty, and the west shore, which they saw faintly 
on Tuesday, was not visible. They could only see the 
cape for which they steered. The cold was sensibly 
felt, a very cutting wind blowing N.E. by N. They 
