. Discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history. Northwest Passage; Natural history; Nord-Ouest, Passage du; Sciences naturelles. i '^. 300 TIIK riJANKUN EXPEDITION, -iJ Tliey sctni f:x( i| for tli( viiiter. i&>''i'i <i-. (iiA!'. XI. was so much strained ns to increase the leakage from â tliree inches in a fortnight to fourteen inches in a day. The ice now remained for bome days stationary. The liflhter pieces had heeii so interlaced and imbricated by pressure as to fonn one entire slieet across t
. Discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history. Northwest Passage; Natural history; Nord-Ouest, Passage du; Sciences naturelles. i '^. 300 TIIK riJANKUN EXPEDITION, -iJ Tliey sctni f:x( i| for tli( viiiter. i&>''i'i <i-. (iiA!'. XI. was so much strained ns to increase the leakage from â tliree inches in a fortnight to fourteen inches in a day. The ice now remained for bome days stationary. The liflhter pieces had heeii so interlaced and imbricated by pressure as to fonn one entire slieet across the whoh; widtli of Harrow's Strait, and away eastward and west- ward to the horizon ; and all the blocks and strata below them were so fumly cemented by the extreme severity of the temj)erature as to seem little likely to break up again that season. The sliips appeared fixed for the winter, and who could tell whether they might not be exposed to a series of as terrific perils as those which so often menaced the Terror with destruction in her awful ice-voyage of ] On the wind shifting to the west, the crews, with a mixture of hope and anxiety, beheld the whole body of ice beginning to drive to the eastward at the rate of eight or ten miles a day. They made all possible ettbrts to lielp themselves, but made them in vain, for no liuman power could have moved either of the ships a single inch. The field of ice which held them fast in its centre was more than fifty miles in circumference. It carried them along the south shore of Lancaster Sound, and then went down the west side of Baffin's Hay, till they were abreast of Pond's Lay, and there it threatened to precipitate them on a barrier of icebergs. But just in the very crisis of alarm it was rent as if by some imseen power into innumerable fragments, and set them almost miraculously free. The crews sprang iiciiverancc. from despair to hope, and from inaction to energy. All tail was set, and warj)s were run out from each qua
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