The Arctic Problem And Narrative of the Peary Relief Expedition of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
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Over an extent of two full miles the deeply hollowed- out or concave ice-front presents an unbroken wall of 70-100 feet elevation, from which ice- bergs constantly press forward. A mile or more in advance of it the polished surfaces of three protruding rock masses or islets clearly betray a former greatness and subsequent shrinkage, but such as it is, the glacier would not be shamed by the largest of the Alps or of Scan- dinavia. With the arrangement that the ex- amination of this huge ice-shee...t shoud be made simultaneously from opposite sides, we divided forces, my party taking up the start from the western border. Our landing place was a true garden spot. The luxuriant growth of grass, 12-16 inches in height, with its garniture of poppies, chickweed, pbtentillas and gentians, was the most refreshing exposition of Greenland vegetation that we had yet met with ; butter- flies flitted about in the bright sunshine, whose genial warmth recalled memories of a distant south. The back of the glacier was easily reached A Lost Companion.
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