Field note book[s], Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1915
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bearing by compass, E by N 1/2 N. Dr Kane called this joint Cape Borsall. On the 25th day they met a great glacier. They reached their highest latitude on Oct. 6th - 79° 50' They placed their cache and carri on a low island at the base of the large glacier, Mr Gary's island. 'The built the cairn on a joint of rock thirty faces E 1/2 S from the cache, and at the same distance from the joint of a remarkable rock on the highest part of the island, bearing S by W 1/2 W. There were two small islands about 200 paces from the cache; the larger bearing E by N 1/2 N and the smaller E.N.E. The most picturesque portion of coast after leaving Cape George Russell and approaching Dallas Bay 'Three Brother Burdels' Tennyson's Monument is beyond Sunny Gorge, to the north of latitude 79° 'A single cliff of greenstone, carved by the heavy limestone that once encased it, rears