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Floor (or most of it) is of solid ledge rock
and is above sea level - Rude bed platform
has been made at innermost part
and there was room enough on it for
three of us. At time of my visit, walls
were coated with ice (frost) from con-
densed steam and bodily emanations.
The Petowic Glacier is evidently
active. Its somewhat accentual round-
ed front projects two, or perhaps three,
miles into the sea and is vertical.
Estimated the height along the outer
part at from 30 to 50 feet. Esteminos
say that it discharges many bergs
every summer. Some three miles
wide at the shore and ten or twelve
miles long (see map) and bordered by