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he has known. The Duke of Roxburgh said the
same concerning his sixteen years’ experience.
July 20-27th.—Leave Hammerfest at midnight,
and reach the North Cape at 7 a.m. It is a
magnificent rugged headland, nearly 1000 feet high
(976 Norsk feet. A Norsk foot = 1·029 English).
The weathering of the rock face clearly indicates
a tendency to pyramidal lamination, and several
pointed crags stand out boldly on its western side.
The summit of the rock is nevertheless so
completely glacier-planed, that, as seen from the
packet, it has the appearance of a smooth
lawnlike greensward.
This is well shown in the engraving opposite,
which is a winter picture of the North Cape seen
from a considerable distance. The snow
covering displays the flat surface very distinctly. It
is drawn by a French artist without any
reference to glacial or any other theory in
explanation of this characteristic table-top. The hollows
or ledges on which rest the curved patches of snow
are probably the channels by which the ice flowed,
or bent over the edge of the precipice. They
represent in miniature the greater hollows or
scooped troughs that flank this and the other
headlands. This is especially the case with the larger
snow-filled hollow behind.
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