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conical heaps and with lakes in all the little valleys. The noise of running water from a lot of streams sounded very odd after the usual Antarctic silence. Occasionally an enormous boulder would come crashing down from the heights above, making jumps of from 50 to 100 feet at a time.

January 30.—Another fine morning, so after breakfast we started for the south end of 'Black Ridge,' from which place we could get a view up the Priestley Glacier. Arriving there about 1 o'clock we found we were cut off from the moraine by a barranca from 40 to 50 feet deep. The glacier itself seemed an important one, judging by the disturbance it made in the piedmont where it flowed in, large undulations and big crevasses extending many miles out.

Although not so steep as Corner Glacier, it was much more crevassed, but what decided us to try Corner Glacier was that the Priestley Glacier curved from a S.W. direction, which would have taken us off our course. Accordingly, after I had secured a round of angles, we steered for the foot of the icefalls of the Corner Glacier, getting there about 5 p.m. After hoosh we left camp standing and climbed the glacier, which proved a very easy job, as, although steep and broken, the séracs are worn smooth and many of the crevasses filled in, which looks as if there was very little movement now.

Arriving at the top of the first icefall we found ourselves on rather a steep broken surface, the valley running in a north-westerly direction for a few miles, where it was fed by several steep glaciers or ice cascades from