Identifier: northwardovergre001pear (find matches)
Title: Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920
Subjects: Eskimos
Publisher: New York, NY : F.A. Stokes Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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TYPICAL STRATIFICATION AND DIP. miles. What with its southern exposure, the protec-tion from the wind afforded by the cliffs and bluffswhich enclose it, and the warmth of colouring of itsshores, it presents one of the most desirable locationsfor a house. The scenery is also varied and attract-ive, offering to the eye greater contrasts, with lesschange of position, than any other locality occurringto me. Around the circuit of the bay are sevenglaciers with exposures to all points of the compass,and varying in size from a few hundred feet to overtwo miles in width.
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*^ 2 rz 4^8 Northward over the Great Ice The ice-cap itself is also in evidence here, its verti-cal face in one place capping and forming a continua-tion of a vertical cliff which rises direct from the bay.From the western point of the bay, a line of greysandstone cliffs—the Sculptured Cliffs of Karnah—interrupted by a single glacier in a distance of eightmiles, and carved by the resistless arctic elementsinto turrets, bastions, huge amphitheatres, and colossalstatues of men and animals, extends to Cape Ackland,

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