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and in one place the hardpacked snow had changed to a mess of solid ice some 10 to 15 ft thick + 14 mile long through the middle of which the water has cut a channel to the ground below. This [[makes]] too much a small a small glacier like body ending [[?]] at its lower end + giving rise to a swift running stream a foot deep + 3 to 4 ft wide camping [[atoms?]] + gravel to a flat a few hundred yds. below from the top of the ridge I could see a single net riding about 1500 to 1800 ft. from a valley much like the one I had just crossed but in the [[Catter]] the water all found its way directly into the [[stee]] by two creeks while in this second valley the slope was the other way and a swift streamlet which found its way out around the western + southern side of the mt. just rained and deflected along the face of a range of mts. about 1500 to 300 ft high which rising on the coast about 1000 ft high or less 15 miles E, of Cape Lisburne run back to the above height with the interior in a southwesterly course. Near the base of the single mt. in the valley I saw what look to be a deer feeding + following the creek I came within 500 yds and found it was a pair of mt. sheep - in trying to get nearer they got the wind from me and fled swiftly up the mt. side + vanished, as I was creeping along the creek I passed several pools 12 to 18 inches deep in which where Grayling darting about or concealing themselves under the slightly overhanging bank.