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This wall is continuous except at the eastern angle of the cove
where a narrow gently sloping valley opens. Proceeding up this
valley for a few hundred yards one finds oneself on the divide of
a narrow isthmus separating the bay already mentioned from a
glacier bay to the eastward; and uniting the mountains which
overhang the head of the bay, with the bold and striking masses
that form its eastern shore and headland. The center of the
isthmus is about 80 ft. above the sea level at its highest
point, and a few yards north of this divide, on the southern slope
of the mountain, lay the famous "Saviksue".
Standing here the eye roams southward over the broken
ice masses of glacier bay, the favorite haunt of the Polar bear;
eastward across the glacier itself to the lebon faces of the"Black
Twins"two beetling ice-capped cliffs which frown down upon the
glacier; Northward to the boulder strewn slopes of a gneissose
mountain; and westward over the placid surface of "Saviksoah
Bay"which presents a striking contrast to the berg chaos on the
opposite side of the isthmus.
In winter this region is the desolation of Arctic des-
plations, constantly harassed by biting winds and with every
rock deep buried beneath the snow which throughout the long dark
night these winds sweep in from the broad expanse of Melville
Bay, piling it in drifts, which in many places are hundreds of
feet deep.
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