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The Mary Minturn River
(after the sister of Mrs Henry
Grinnell) issues from beneath
a glacier in numerous streams
which unite about four miles
above the mouth. Lat 78°52'
7 miles beyond Cape William
Wakefield Shoalberay known
to Dr Harris party as the
Chimney Rock. The brig
was placed between the
islands in General Harbor
store house on Butler Island
Dye " " "
Observatory on Fern Rock
50 faces Drug and Hotroad
and about 30 feet above
the water line. Here we
raised four walls of granite
blocks (wooden roof.)
The magnetic observatory
adjoining -- shire, ten feet
square.
Cahino huls three miles
from the brig, four in
number.