Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 108
Hardships of Arctic Travel 79 washed by the sea or torn away by the ice that haddescended with the tides. The turf, too, a representa-tive of very ancient growth, was cut off even with thewaters edge, giving sections two feetthick. I had not noticed before suchunmistak-able evi- … Esquimau Hut. dence of the depression of this coast: its converse ele-vation I had observed to the north of WostenholmeSound. The axis of oscillation must be somewhere inthe neighborhood of latitude 77°. We reached Cape York on the 21st, after a tortuousbut romantic travel through a misty…
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