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“debouche;” it sloped gradually upward for some five 
miles back, and then, following the irregularities of its 
rocky sub-structure, suddenly became a steep crevassed 
hill, ascending in abrupt terraces. Then came two 
intervals of less rugged ice, from which the glaciei 
passed into the great mer cle glace . 
THE BRIDGE. 
On ascending a high craggy hill to the northward, 1 
had a sublime prospect of this great frozen ocean, which 
seems to form the continental axis of Greenland,— 
a vast undulating plain of purple-tinted ice, studded 
with islands, and absolutely gemming the horizon with 
the varied glitter of sun-tipped crystal. 
