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DEEP AND CLEAR.
high, perpendicular cliffs, and looking as if at any moment it might crumble off, and fall with them into the open water between it and the floating sea-ice.
MORTON CLIMBING ON TO THE LAND-ICE.
The sea here was very deep and clear. They could see the bottom quite plainly, although a stone they cast in, the size of a man’s head, took twenty-eight seconds to reach it.
Being now afraid of the ice-ledge, they attempted
