A voyage towards the North pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773 . ur. Thatreprefented in the engraving, from a fketch taken by upon the fpot, was about three hundred feethigh, with a cafcade of water ifluing out of it. Theblack mountains, white fnow, and beautiful colour of theice, make a very romantick and uncommon pidure. Largepieces frequently break ofF from the Icebergs, and fallwith great noife into the water: we obferved one piecewhich had floated out into the bay, and grounded in twenty-four fathom; it was fifty feet high above the furface ofthe water, and of the
A voyage towards the North pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773 . ur. Thatreprefented in the engraving, from a fketch taken by upon the fpot, was about three hundred feethigh, with a cafcade of water ifluing out of it. Theblack mountains, white fnow, and beautiful colour of theice, make a very romantick and uncommon pidure. Largepieces frequently break ofF from the Icebergs, and fallwith great noife into the water: we obferved one piecewhich had floated out into the bay, and grounded in twenty-four fathom; it was fifty feet high above the furface ofthe water, and of the fame beautiful colour as the Iceberg, A particular defcription of all the plants and animalswill have a place in the Appendix. I fhall here men-tion fuch general obfervations as my fhort flay enabledme to make. The ftone we found was chiefly a kind ofmarble, which diflblved eafily in the marine acid. Weperceived no marks of minerals of any kind, nor the leaftappearance of prefent, or remains of former did we meet with infeds, or any fpecies of reptiles;. W: Jiym,^ Jc-u/f^ ijy^
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