Greenland Journal III 1916
Page 136
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1 May. Sunday, 1/32 Clear + Calm. C4 at 9 a.m., but clouds (after noon or nearly so) max 38° Temp. min 12°; 9a 33°; 12m 37°; 4p. 36°; 6p 35°; Took photos 9 x 16, 4-12, of captain and crew in winter costume on ice near vessel - From 11 to 4 out alone to big gulch and via that to top of Bird Cliff and the summits on the plateau. Took elevations – Bay ice at gulch 410' 12m – 12:45p. Edge of cliff first section 1170' = 760' A.J. 12:53p. Do above pinnacle photo'd 1190' = 780' A.J. 1:02p. Do. highest point second section 1250' = 840' A.J. 1:35p. High point above Broken Rock Pt. 1560' = 1150' A.J. (highest point visible from Clvert) 1:42p. Highest point of bluff mass 1580' = 1170' A.J. 2:55p. Bay ice at foot of gulch. 400'; . average wld. add 5ft. to A.J.'s given above. In big gulch about 100 feet above bay there is a 3 foot boulder of schistose augen gneiss augen consist of Karlsbads turn of feldspar about an inch long, extremely thick, parallel position, long axes parallel to schistosify. Handsome specimen. Plateau has on it some of RudtLak's lines of stones for the attachment of rabbit snares – may long ante date Rudtlak! Three remains of little ant caches, one of which was near edge of cliff above the pinnacle - Saw us erratics surface being wholly cored with frost-rounded, subangular, and few angular fragments of local rock, nearly or quite in place. Diabase sill or dike shown as a band of darker debris amid the feldspastic gneiss. Change from feldspar gneiss to hornblende gneiss can be made out despite of coating of lichens. Above Broken Rock Point the gneiss is very black from the contained hornblende - Beautiful day and beautiful view – Wide open lead around Cape Dudley Digges and extending northward well off from point of Petowitz Glacier and toward Cape Athol. Toward Cape York leads are broad and