. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. ed, it isa wall, resisting the grinding floes; and it goes ongathering increase and strength from the successivefreezing of the tides, until the melted snows and water-torrents of summer for a time check its our first winter at Rensselaer Harbor, the ice-belt grew to three times the size which it had uponour arrival; and, by the middle of March, the islandsand adjacent shores were hemmed in by an investingplane of nearly thirty feet high (27 feet) and one hun-dred and twenty wi
. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. ed, it isa wall, resisting the grinding floes; and it goes ongathering increase and strength from the successivefreezing of the tides, until the melted snows and water-torrents of summer for a time check its our first winter at Rensselaer Harbor, the ice-belt grew to three times the size which it had uponour arrival; and, by the middle of March, the islandsand adjacent shores were hemmed in by an investingplane of nearly thirty feet high (27 feet) and one hun-dred and twenty wide. The ice-foot at this season was not, however, an un-broken level. It had, like the floes, its barricades, ser-ried and irregular; which it was a work of great labor Vol. I.—12 178 I C E - B E L T E N G R 0 A C 11 I N G. and some difficulty to traverse. Our stores were in con-sequence nearly inaccessible; and, as the ice-foot stillcontinued to extend itself, piling ice-table upon ice-table,it threatened to encroach upon our anchorage and perilthe safety of the vessel. The ridges were already. HA /tE^ 4 f/^^ ^ *l^^^§„r^^/^
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