...progress to the ESE, close along the lofty perpendicular cliffs of the icy barrier. It is impossible to conceive a more solid-looking mass of ice ; not...which dashed their spray high up the face of them. Having sailed along this curious wall of ice in Jan- 29perfectly clear water a distance of upwards...

...if it might be the mother of the great Antarctic bergs, forming, as it does, a vertical cliff; but " not the smallest appearance of any rent or fissure...could we discover throughout its whole extent," and there were only small fragments of ice along its base. Its outer edge was afloat, however, for we found...

...good progress to ESE, close along the lofty, perpendicular cliffs of the icy barrier. It is impossible to conceive a more solidlooking mass of ice ; not...the smallest appearance of any rent or fissure could be discovered throughout its whole extent, and the intensely bright sky l>eyond it plainly indicated...

...might as well sail through the cliffs of Dover as penetrate such a mass ... It would be impossible to conceive a more solid-looking mass of ice; not...great distance to which it reached to the southward.' 42 At 4 pm they turned to follow the Barrier. Mount Erebus, still visible to the west, erupted in spectacular...

...might as well sail through the cliffs of Dover as penetrate such a mass ... It would be impossible to conceive a more solid-looking mass of ice; not...indicated the great distance to which it reached to the southward.'4- At 4 pm they turned to follow the Barrier. Mount Erebus, still visible to the west, erupted...