. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. got into their places; and I, by degrees, mastered my sick-ness, and was the man once more. On July 27th we had a heavy snow-storm, and soon afterwardthe land on the west side of Daviss Straits was seen, the mount-ains covered with snow; but, owing to frequent fogs (sometimesit seemed to rain fog) and unsettled weather, we could not nearthe George Henrys destination, which was now changed to a placemore south of Northumberland Inlet. We came across but littleice, except bergs, and frecmently expressed much surprise at iceb
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. got into their places; and I, by degrees, mastered my sick-ness, and was the man once more. On July 27th we had a heavy snow-storm, and soon afterwardthe land on the west side of Daviss Straits was seen, the mount-ains covered with snow; but, owing to frequent fogs (sometimesit seemed to rain fog) and unsettled weather, we could not nearthe George Henrys destination, which was now changed to a placemore south of Northumberland Inlet. We came across but littleice, except bergs, and frecmently expressed much surprise at icebergs, however, were numerous, and many of them deeplyinteresting—one especially so, from its vast height and odd say odd, though that applies in all bergs, for no two are alike,nor does any one seem long to retain its same appearance and po-sition. The following is a sketch of one I called the Belted Ice-. UKLTtU> 1CEUEIIO. GOTHIC ICEBERG. 85 berg; but ice movements are as mysterious almost as the mag-netic pole. The captain told me that he had known two vesselsto be beset near each other in the ice, and in a few days, thoughthe same ice was around each vessel, yet they would be manymiles apart! Bergs have been known to approach and recedefrom each other in as beautiful and stately a manner as partnersin the old-fashioned, courtly dances of years gone by. Of the various bergs I particularly noticed, a few descriptivewords may here be said. The first view of one that attracted myattention looked as if an old castle was before me. The ruins ofa lofty dome about to fall, and a portion of an arched roof alreadytumbling down, were conspicuous. Then, in a short time, thischanged to a picture of an elephant with two large circular tow-ers on his back, and Corinthian spires springing out boldly fromthe broken mountains of alabaster on which he had placed hisfeet. The third view, when at a gr
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