. The polar and tropical worlds [microform] : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe : two volumes in one : embracing also an account of the expeditions of all the Arctic explorers from the discovery of Iceland, over one thousand years ago, to Hall's last expedition in the northern world, together with the wonderful discoveries and adventures of Agassiz, Livingstone, Wallace, and other distinguished travelers in the tropical countries. Arctic races; Tropics; Natural history; Races arctiques; Régions tropicales; Sciences naturelles; genealogy. THE ARCT
. The polar and tropical worlds [microform] : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe : two volumes in one : embracing also an account of the expeditions of all the Arctic explorers from the discovery of Iceland, over one thousand years ago, to Hall's last expedition in the northern world, together with the wonderful discoveries and adventures of Agassiz, Livingstone, Wallace, and other distinguished travelers in the tropical countries. Arctic races; Tropics; Natural history; Races arctiques; Régions tropicales; Sciences naturelles; genealogy. THE ARCTIC SEAS. 49 direction h wcigli- dash to- i-(Uv con- ic' The unrcinit- ,'ir safety, 1 so nuuh 1st these irticiilarly â Y, as their itinctly ob- since the y numbers :d to pieces .on, for tlu> must needs ;n<l thrown and others piled up^J" Most of these swimmlnf» glacier-fragments, or icebergs, which are met with by the whaler in tlie Northern Atlantic, are formed on the mountainous west coast of Greenland by the large glacieri, which discliarge themselves into the fiords from Smith's Sound to Disco Hay, as hero the sea is sufliciently deep to float t'lem away, in spite of the enormous magnitude they frequently attain. As they drift along down Uaffiu's Hay and Davis's Strait, they not seldom run. ICliBEUUS AUUOLND. [ce the sop' aground on some shallow shore, where, bidding defiance to the short sununer, tlicy frequently remain for many a year. Dr. Hayes measured an inmiense iceberg which had stranded off little harbor of Tessuissak, to the north of Melville Bay. The square wall which faced toward his base of measurement was Ulo feet high, and a fraction over three-quarters of a mile long. Being almost square-sided above the sea, the same shape must have extemled beneath it; and since, by measurements made two days before, Hayes had discovered tliat fresli-water ice floating m salt wa- ter has above the surface to below it tlie proportion of one to seven, this
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