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A stone pipe of [[?]] and a hammer stone.
Here and there where rocky soil gave foothold on the wind swept slope peeped out pretty and fragile flowers of a Draba, 2 anemones.
1 cordamine, 1 Primula a beautiful blue forget-me-not.
A myrtensia, 1 Calina and a Ranunculus and a Potentilla - Several Caries and a Poa formed the plants in flower and a dwarf willow. All these plants are short none rising over about 3 inches in height and the bright and delicate shades of purple, violet and pink with white and yellow which gayly [[?]] the sunny slopes in the lower + Sheltered positions made a pretty contrast to the rugged rocky surroundings and down two ravines danced and plashed two snow fed rivulets in a series of cascades and rapids to run into the sea at the base of the cliffs around which circled numbers of sea birds.
Prof. M. locates the path of two great ice sheets sweeping down from the N. across this point.
This cape is formed by a peninsula separated from the main land by a low neck across which the ice sheets swept.
I went on board + returned to secure some photographs of the place but with poor results owing to lack of time and high wind.
Early in the afternoon the Corwin got under