. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. EARLY NOHTII-WKST VOYAOKS. 22[) st eventful closed his jstern pass- himself is Bi particular certain per. tet, against hat will ap- ' objections. John Wol- er persons of oject it on a only of one mths, which 0. Hudson Orkney and I as lying in tsented. On part of Ice- ,g^—hearing it seeing it. lOr; but, as id westward [1 (Snaefell), ilement sky. the volcano torrents of iscen
. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. EARLY NOHTII-WKST VOYAOKS. 22[) st eventful closed his jstern pass- himself is Bi particular certain per. tet, against hat will ap- ' objections. John Wol- er persons of oject it on a only of one mths, which 0. Hudson Orkney and I as lying in tsented. On part of Ice- ,g^—hearing it seeing it. lOr; but, as id westward [1 (Snaefell), ilement sky. the volcano torrents of iscending to [n itself, but dication of westward, Illusory ap- of Green-. Mount Heel a. land towering behind a mighty wall of ice. With- out attempting to approach the beach, the captain steered towards the south-west, and passed what he imagined to be Frobisher's Straits, which in fact long continued to be erroneously laid down on this shore, though tliey belong to that of America. He now turned Cape Farewell, and " raised the Deso- lations," making careful observation of tliose points of land, whicli he found not well delineated in the charts. The mariners soon began to descry, floating along, the mighty islands of ice,—a sight which ap- plied all but the stoutest hearts. Onward they advanced, however, sometimes enjoying a clear and open sea, but often encompassed by icebergs or by small and drifting heaps ; and at length they had to steer as it were between two lands of ice. On oc- casions of peril, they not Mnfrequently moored them- selves to the larger masses ; but seeing one of them split, and fall with a tremendous crash into the waves, they no longer trusted to such a protection. On the 25 th June land appeared to the north, was. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Leslie, John,
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