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the base of the rocks the ground was colored with the gray & yellow lichen dotted with very many scarlet cranberries- After photographing the posts and eating a few berries we made our way slowly back to the boat and went on board the Corwin. Then up came the anchor & we steamed up opposite the bluffs on Elephant Point when the water shoaled so we were forced to anchor in 2 3/4 fathoms. We went ashore to the bluffs containing the ice about which so much has been said and after a look along [[strikethrough]] it we [[/strikethrough]] the shore we returned to the vessel. We found the [[strikethrough]] enlir [[/strikethrough]] entire bluff to be 140 feet high (Aneroid Bar.) and to be made up mainly of ice along its face for about 3 miles here. The ice has frequently a projecting snout under which the water at high tide has eaten 15 to 20 ft. and this [[strikethrough]] slopes [[/strikethrough]] snout slopes up & has its upper surface hidden by an inclined bank of sod & soil fallen from the brow of the hill above. This sloping  bank is covered with a luxurious mass of vegetation mainly grass 2 to 4 ft. high with [[strikethrough]] alders thrifly [[/strikehtrough]] Alder bushes at places and this sloping bank ends abruptly against a more or less abrupt[[strikethrough]]ly[[strikethrough]] rising wall of ice 5 to 20 feet high forming the brow of the cliff & over this ice is a layer of from a foot to