A voyage towards the North pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773 . heightI imagine to proceed from the fmailer pieces being thrownxip by the force of the fea on the folid part. During thetime that we were fafl amongft the Seven Iflands, we hadfrequent opportunities of obferving the irrefiftible force ofthe large bodies of floating ice. We have often feen apiece of feveral acres fquare lifted up between two much,larger pieces, and as it were becoming one with them;^nd afterwards this piece fo formed afting in the fame-manner upon a fecond and third; which would probablyhave continued t
A voyage towards the North pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773 . heightI imagine to proceed from the fmailer pieces being thrownxip by the force of the fea on the folid part. During thetime that we were fafl amongft the Seven Iflands, we hadfrequent opportunities of obferving the irrefiftible force ofthe large bodies of floating ice. We have often feen apiece of feveral acres fquare lifted up between two much,larger pieces, and as it were becoming one with them;^nd afterwards this piece fo formed afting in the fame-manner upon a fecond and third; which would probablyhave continued to be the efFe<9, till the whole bay hadbeen fo filled with ice that the diflerent pieces could havehad no motion, had not the ftream taken an unexpededturn^ and fet the ice out of the bay. 19th. Weighed in the morning with the wind atN N E. Before we got out of the bay it fell calm, I ob-ferved for thefe three or four days, about eleven in theevening, an appearance of dufk. 20th. FAIR HAVEIS^,a///.) the ri orfl) Wrsr Coalt Spit sber(xE:n Jro/// an actual Survcv taken. ?vivy/if i/i-iui. — J^ttt -/?. ^~/^- y2 JOURNAL. Augu{l. The nature of the ice was a principal objedl of at- tention in this climate. We found always a great fwellnear the edge of it; but whenever we got withinthe loofe ice, the water was constantly fmooth. Theloofe fields and flaws, as well as the interior part of thefixed ice, were flat, and low : with the wind blowing onthe ice, the loofe parts were always, to ufe the phrafeof the Greenlandmen, packedy the ice at the edges ap-pearing rough, and piled up; this roughnefs and heightI imagine to proceed from the fmailer pieces being thrownup by the force of the fea on the folid part. During thetime that we were faft amongft the Seven Iflands, we hadfrequent opportunities of obferving the irrefiftible force ofthe large bodies of floating ice. We have often feen apiece of feveral acres fquare lifted up between two muchlarger pieces, and as it were becoming one w
Size: 1155px × 2164px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthormulgrave, bookidvoyagetowardsnor00inmulg, bookyear1774
