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to start both meteors from their beds and in this way an accurate
estimate of the relative weights would be obtained and on returning
to the Kite and comparing notes a decision could be arrived at as
to which one our full forbe should be concentrated upon.
The
monster
afternoons work on the big stone showed it to be more of a moteor
than was at first supposed. Two ten ton jacks under one end
hardly succeeded in starting the mass slightly from its bed and
this was effected at the expense of the ruin of one of the jacks
and crippling the other. The afternoon at the other meteor was
more satisfactory. One jack easily lifted it from its bed, and
a second smaller meteor, the one described to me by the natives as
about the size of a dog was located. The next morning the engineer
force went to the large meteor with a view to drilling it and
blasting off a piece, while all the remaining available force was
taken to the other meteors by Mr. Debitsch.
Before night the smaller meteor was safe on board having
been dragged on a rough sledge over the stones, down the snow drift
ferried across the shore lead on a cake of ice then hauled over
the ice to the ship. The other meteor had been blocked up ready
to
be loaded upon its sledge. The following day the sledge for
the large meteor was constructed the meteor placed upon it and
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