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It has been already traced -- at the peril of
the lives of the party -- for 90 miles. Through-
out all this extent it presented a precipi=
=tous face of 3 to 500 feet and when last
seen was lost as a mere point in the
distance still running to the North.
Such a length of protruded ice would imply
a corresponding brea[d]th. An icy river
already abutting 90 miles in to the sea must
have at its sources of exit a diameteter
proportioned to its magnificent ^linear^ dimensions
--and the 120 miles which seem to intervene
between ourselves and the culmination
of Greenland are perhaps entirely
occupied by this gigantic ice barrier.

Greenland is a continent rather
than an island its least possible axis
from Cape Farewell to the assumed northern
then culmination of 82º gives a length
of 1320 miles -- while Australia
from its northern to its southern capes
is but 280 miles greater (x1). Imagine
now the centres of a continent. Throughout
nearly this extent occupied by a colossal
mer de glace representing at once the
water shed of vast areas of snow covered
mountains and its atmospheric precipitations.
(2) Imagine this flowing on as an icy river
-- seeking its lateral vents at every fiord
and valley -- and discharging mountains
of ice -- ice bergs -- into the Atlantic
and Greenland Seas and at last
reaching the northern face of its generating

(x)1. Australia between Bass and Torres straits
measures about 1600 miles. Determine
the accuracy!

(2) Dr. Hayes interior journey off Renssalaer H. was arrested at
90 miles distance by the same great glacier.