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FITZ-CL ARENCE ROCK. 
huge fragments from the overhanging lip into the sea 
below. The glacier must have been eleven hundred 
feet high; but even at its summit we could see the 
lines of viscous movement which I have endeavored to 
transfer to my sketch. 
We crossed Murchison Channel on the 23d, and 
encamped for the night on the land-floe at the base of 
Cape Parry; a hard day’s travel, partly by tracking 
over ice, partly through tortuous and zigzag leads. 
The next day brought us to the neighborhood of Fitz- 
Clarence Rock, one of the most interesting monuments 
that rear themselves along this dreary coast: in a 
region more familiar to men, it would be a landmark 
to the navigator. It rises from a field of ice like an 
Egyptian pyramid surmounted by an obelisk. 
I had been anxious to communicate with the Esqui¬ 
maux of Netelik, in the hope of gaining some further 
intelligence of Hans. Our friends of Etah had given 
me, in their own style, a complete itinerary of this 
region, and we had no difficulty in instructing Godfrey 
how to trace his way across the neck of land which 
stood between us anc^ the settlement. He made the 
attempt, but found the snow-drift impassable; and 
Petersen, whom I sent on the same errand to Tes- 
siusak, returned equally unsuccessful. 
The next day gave us admirable progress. The ice 
opened in leads before us, somewhat tortuous, but, on 
the whole, favoring, and for sixteen hours I never left 
the helm. We were all of us exhausted when the 
day’s work came to a close. Our allowance had been 
