. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. g back toher place uninjured. The wave broke on the cliffs above the ship, itsforce being so great that the spectators estimated its height at a hundredfeet; the top of the wave, as it struck the rocks, curled backward and fellon the deck of the ship, which it deluged with water, but not enough tosink her. Another wave followed, and then another and another, but eachwas less violent than its predecessor, and after a while the bay resumedits wonted quiet. The party on shore had quite as narrow an escape as those on the were a short dis
. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. g back toher place uninjured. The wave broke on the cliffs above the ship, itsforce being so great that the spectators estimated its height at a hundredfeet; the top of the wave, as it struck the rocks, curled backward and fellon the deck of the ship, which it deluged with water, but not enough tosink her. Another wave followed, and then another and another, but eachwas less violent than its predecessor, and after a while the bay resumedits wonted quiet. The party on shore had quite as narrow an escape as those on the were a short distance from the beach when the wave reached them,hut by throwing themselves flat on the rocks, and clinging with all theirmight, they managed to hold on. One of them lost his grasp and wasthrown several yards by the wave, but though considerably bruised, heseized another rock and was saved. They lost all their implements, andif they had been on the beach when the wave swept down the bay, it isprobable that not one would have escaped. 3 .r/r^r^711. VERTICAL SECTION OF A GLACIER. Bergs are sometimes seen two or three miles long and several hundredfeet high floating in the Atlantic; remember that only one-eighth of theirmass is visible, and then think how enormous must be the quantity con-cealed below. Frequently several large bergs will be found close together,which were evidently from the same glacier and broken off at the sametime. When the convulsion took place by which they were thrown fromthe front of the glacier it was split asunder, and thus their escape wasfacilitated. In some places where the glaciers come down to the sea, thewater is too shallow to allow the bergs to float off; they become crowdedtogether, and as the heat of the sun is not sufficient to melt them theylie for years close to the place of their formation. For the present we will drop the consideration of the iceberg, and itsparent the glacier, and return to our friends on the Vivian. Captain Jones did not p
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