. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. roTAOEa. nee they transmitted )leful iflsue of their >od foremost in tlie and earned a fame 3 greatest of British is career in former tempt to cross the oyage for the north- rd excursion, which iver now associated iventful of his voy grandest result, was ^ undertaken with a he narrative of the ger journal, brought ! voyage; but a full personage, naming whose testimony,
. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. roTAOEa. nee they transmitted )leful iflsue of their >od foremost in tlie and earned a fame 3 greatest of British is career in former tempt to cross the oyage for the north- rd excursion, which iver now associated iventful of his voy grandest result, was ^ undertaken with a he narrative of the ger journal, brought ! voyage; but a full personage, naming whose testimony, ippear in due time, 3. This expedition nholme. Sir Dudley istinction, who did ' magnificent scale. S5 tons, provisioned Thames on the 17th the north of Scot- I Islands, Jl which ititude as th maps e descried the east- veloped in a thick g against the coast obliged to come to ler cleared, he pro St till he reached irs its awful head frozen shores of igators saw HAcla, activity, vomiting i^lit TJiliriSi, SARLT NORTH-WEST V0TA0E8, 181. torrents of fire down its snowy sides, with smoke ascending to the sky; an object not only fear; il in itself, but which struck them with alarm, as an mdi- cation of unfavourable weather. Leaving the Icelandic coast they now sailed west- ward, and, after being deceived by illusory appear- ances of land, at length saw the white cliffs of Greenland towering behind a mighty wall of ice. Without attempting to approach the coast, Hudson sailed towards the south-west, and passed what he imagined to be Frobisher's Straits, which in fact long continued to be laid down on the coast of Green- land, though with manifest error, since they evidently belong to that of America. Hudson now turned Cape Farewell, and " raised the Desolations," making careful observation of those coasts, which he found not well laid down in the charts. The mariners soon began to descry, floating along, the mighty islands of ice,—a sight which appalled all but the stoutest
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