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oft* to tlie east, ranged from 7° to 15°, so broken by the 
crevasses, however, as to give the effect of an inclined 
plane only in the distance. A few black knobs rose 
from the white snow, like islands from the sea. 
The general configuration of its surface showed how 
it adapted itself to the inequalities of the basis-country 
beneath. There was every modification of hill and 
valley, just as upon land. Thus diversified in its 
aspect, it stretches to the north till it bounds upon the 
new land of Washington, cementing into one the 
Greenland of the Scandinavian Vikings and the 
America of Columbus. 
