Greenland, 1917
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(2) 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