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which a little more than a year before I had removed the deep
covering of the winter's snows.
With the snow now melted away from the aerolite and its sur-
roundings, it was possible to obtain a clear idea of the diffi-
culties incident to transporting the mass to the ship. I was en-
couraged to find the aerolite was not sseriously larger than I
had first estimated it to be, my excavation of the previous year
having determined its maximum dimensions. The continued existence
of a large drift of compacted snow and ice in the little valley
between it and the head of the Bay, was also a valuable point in
our favor. Yet the several hundred feet of distance intervening
between the eaerolite and the upper end of this drift, thickly
covered with large gneissose boulders; and the wide lane of open
water separating the ice in the Bay from the shore at the mouth
of the valley, presented difficulties which I could see would re-
quire all our resources to overcome. As it was now nearly mid-
night we returned to the ship.
The next day the large aerolite was lifted out of its bed
with jacks and a rough sledge made for the smaller one which now
that the snow was melted away, we found located about a hundred
feet distant from the other and lower down. On the second day
the large one was blocked up ready for transportation, and the
smaller one rolled upon a rough sledge made of three spruce poles
and on this dragged by the combined force of the ship's crew and
my native allies over the boulders and down the snowdrift to
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