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ourth ledge,there was no mistaking the fact that they were now at the top of the flat hill. Up till now the slope had given them some shelter;here,they got the full fury of the wind. For the hill,oddly enough,was quite as flat on top as it had looked from a distance:a great level tableland which the storm tore across without resistance. In most places the snow was still hardly lying at all,for the wind kept catching it up off the ground in sheets and clouds,and hurling it in their faces. And round their feet little eddies of snow ran about as you sometimes see them doing over ice. And,indeed,in many places,the surface was almost as smooth as ice. But to make matters worse it was crossed and crisscrossed with curious banks or dykes,which sometimes divided it up into squares and oblongs. All these of course had to be climbed;they varied from two to five feet in height and were about a couple of yards thick. On the north side of each bank the snow already lay in deep drifts;and after each