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Identifier: arcticexploratio01kane (find matches)
Title: Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857
Subjects: Grinnell Expedition 1853-1855)
Publisher: Philadelphia, Childs & Peterson (etc., etc.)
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WALRUS-HOLES. 141 water enough to sport and even sleep in, betweenthe fields of drift, as they opened with the tide; butthey had worked numerous breathing-holes besides, inthe solid ice nearer shore/ Many of these were in-side the capes of Rensselaer Harbor. They had thesame circular, cleanly-finished margin as the seals,but they were in much thicker ice, and the radiating

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