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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.