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and the current ran up very fast, four or five knots 
perhaps. 
The cliffs were here very high: at a short distance 
they seemed about two thousand feet; but the crags were 
so overhanging that Morton could not see the tops as 
A SKETCH. 
he drew closer. The echoes were confusing, and the 
clamor of half a dozen ivory gulls, who were frightened 
from their sheltered nooks, was multiplied a hundred¬ 
fold. The mollemokes were still numerous; but he now 
saw no ducks. 
He tried to pass round the cape. It was in vain: 
there was no ice-foot; and, trying his best to ascend the 
