Note 207 — Chapter LVII · THE SOCIETIES’ ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION First Year.
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M’Clintock’s sledges were 9 ft. and 11 ft. long, 3 ft. 2 in. wide, 11½ inches high, with 6 uprights and 6 cross bars, the runners were of ½-inch iron, 3 inches wide and slightly convex. All were lashed with strips of hide, put on warm and wet, so that they shrank and made all tight.