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This indication of a great propelling agency
was, however, just commencing for these
split-off lines of ice where evidently still
in motion widening their fissures and
with actions more and more energetic as they neared the water
tumbling - and discharging - and crumbling
and falling until they assumed the
form of ice bergs. Long files of these
could be seen until lost in the distance
their separation marked by dark parallel
lines, which although they commenced
with broad and spaceous avenues - were
narrowed in the distant perspective to
mere points. A sight more impressive
than this vast area can hardly be conceived.

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I need not do more than describe it to render
justice to the parties who wandered along its
base seeking modes of possible ascent. No
mortal can ascend or cross this natural
fortress - it protects its own mysteries and
shuts out forever the furhter approach to
the Atlantic by human labour.

[margin] Wednesday
June 28

The distance configuration of the Glacier
shows that it adapts itself to the inequalities
of a basis country underneath - every
modification of hill and valley may
be formed there as upon land. Thus
running on it approaches the Continent
of America - and the return of Morton
will show whether - it connects into one the
Greenland of the Scandinavian Vikings
and the America of Chris.r Columbus.
So much then for our discoveries on the
Greenland coast.

Mr. McGeary's men by making