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NOTES. 
Note 18, p. 81. 
The observations of our parties extended the range of the musk-ox ( Oviboi 
moschatus ) to the Greenland coast. Nouo of us saw a living specimen; but the 
great number of skeletons, their state of preservation and probable foot-tracks, 
when taken in conjunction with the information of the Esquimaux, leave me no 
room to doubt but that these animals have been recent visitors. 
Note 19, p. 82. 
See “Examination of Plants,” by Elias Durand, Esq., in Appendix No. XVIII. 
Note 20, p. 87. 
Except for cases of sudden effort and not calling for continued exertion or 
exposure, grog was not looked upon as advisable. Hot coffee was a frequent 
and valuable stimulus. 
Note 21, p. 93. 
The tenacity with which the ice-belt adheres to the rocks is well shown by 
its ability to resist the overflow of the tides. The displacement thus occa¬ 
sioned is sometimes, however, so excessive that the entiro mass is floated away, 
carrying with it the fragments which had been luted to it from below, as well 
as those incorporated with its mass by deposits from above. 
Note 22, p. 95. 
A reindeer-skull found in the same gorge was completely fossilized. That 
the snow-waters around Rensselaer Harbor held largo quantities of carbonate 
of lime in solution was proved not only by the tufaceous deposit which in- 
crusted the masses, but by actual tests. The broken-down magnesian lime¬ 
stones of the upper plateaux readily explain this. 
Note 23, p. 97. 
The several minor streams which make up Mary Minturn River run nearly 
parallel with the axis of the interior glacier from which they take their origin, 
and unite in a single canal without intermediate lakes. 
Note 24, p. 99. 
The flower-growth of the valley of Mary Minturn River proves that certain 
favoring influences—especially those of reverberation of heat from the rocks 
