A voyage towards the North pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773 . r. Thatreprefented in the engraving, from a fketch taken by upon the fpot, was about three hundred feethigh, with a cafcade of water iffuing out of it. Theblack mountains, white fnow, and beautiful colour of theice, make a very romantick and uncommon pidlure. Largepieces frequently break off from the Icebergs, and fallwith great noife into the water: we obferved one piecewhich had floated out into the bay, and grounded in twenty-four fathom; it was fifty feet high above the furface ofthe water, and of the
A voyage towards the North pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773 . r. Thatreprefented in the engraving, from a fketch taken by upon the fpot, was about three hundred feethigh, with a cafcade of water iffuing out of it. Theblack mountains, white fnow, and beautiful colour of theice, make a very romantick and uncommon pidlure. Largepieces frequently break off from the Icebergs, and fallwith great noife into the water: we obferved one piecewhich had floated out into the bay, and grounded in twenty-four fathom; it was fifty feet high above the furface ofthe water, and of the fame beautiful colour as the Iceberg. A particular defcription of all the plants and animalswill have a place in the Appendix. I fhall here men-tion fuch general obfervations as my fhort ftay enabledme to make. The flone we found was chiefly a kind ofmarble, which diffolved eafily in the marine acid. Weperceived no marks of minerals of any kind, nor the leaftappearance of prefent, or remains of former did we meet with infeds, or any fpecies of reptiles;. •u^ :9u-,-,j </«/ Jcu/t HT, .1 7» JOURNAL. reptiles; not even the common earthworm. We faw no Augufiiprings or rivers, the water, which we found in greatplenty, being all produced by the melting of the fnowfrom the mountains. During the whole time we were inthefe latitudes, there was no thunder or lightning. I muftalfo add, that I never found what is mentioned by Marten(who is generally accurate in his obfervations, and faithfulin his accounts) of the fun at midnight refembling in ap-pearance the moon ; I faw no difference in clear weatherbetween the fun at midnight and any other time, but whatarofe from a different degree of altitude ; the brightnefs ofthe light appearing there, as well as elfewhere, to dependupon the obliquity of his rays. The fky was in generalloaded with hard white clouds; fo that I do not re-member to have ever feen the fun and the horizon bothfree from them even in the cleareft we
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