History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . jjots were heightened in intensity of shadeand multiplied in size as they receded, until the belt of the water-skyblended them all together into one uniform color of dark blue. Theold and solid floes (some a quarter of a mile and others a mile across),and the massive ridges and wastes of hummocked ice, which lay piledbetween them and around
History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . jjots were heightened in intensity of shadeand multiplied in size as they receded, until the belt of the water-skyblended them all together into one uniform color of dark blue. Theold and solid floes (some a quarter of a mile and others a mile across),and the massive ridges and wastes of hummocked ice, which lay piledbetween them and around their margins, were the only parts of thesea which retained the whiteness and solidity of winter. 1 So named by Dr. Hayes for William Parker Foulke, of Philadelphia, who aided infitting out the expedition, and died l)elbre its return. Dr. Hayes dedicates his narrativeto his memory. FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES. 389 xUl the evidences showed that I stood upon the shores of the polarbasin, and that the broad ocean lay at my feet; that the land uponwhich I stood, culminating in the distant cape before me, was but apoint of land projecting far into it, like the Ceverro Vostochnoi Nossof the opposite coast of Siberia; and that the little margin of ice which. lined the shore was being steadily worn away, and within a month thewhole sea would be as free from ice as I had seen the north water ofBaffins Bay, interrupted only by a moving pack, drifting to and fro atthe will of the winds and currents. 390 (»Ki(;iN AM) iK()(;kkss of i-iik It now only lonuiiiioil tor us to plant (nir (Iul; in inkeii of our dis-covery, and to deposit a record in ])i(iol of our presence. The flagswere tied to the whip-lasli, and suspended between tw(j tall rocks, andwhile we were building a cairn tliey were allowed to flutter in thebreeze; then, tearing a leaf from my note-book, I wrote on it as fol-lows : — This point (the most northern land that has ever been reached)was visited by the undersigned, May 18,
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