Baffin Bay were able to see engineers and workmen waving and

throwing up their caps and falling into one another's arms in

ecstasies of delight. When the excitement subsided, the

"Chairman Wetmore, of the Committee on Excavations and

Embankments in Wilkesland and the Antarctic Continent, reports:

'Two hundred and fifty thousand square miles are now hollowed out

and enclosed sufficiently to hold water to an average depth of

four hundred feet. Every summer, when the basin is allowed to