Harper's story booksA series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the youngEmbellished with numerous and beautiful engravings . THE ICE FRESHET. of it. The masses of ice sweptdown by the current grind againsteach other, and press irresistiblyonward, crushing every thing thatopposes them. Observe how theboats are jammed about. Someare thrown almost out of the wa-ter. The men in the boats are INUNDATIONS. 129 Vessels in danger. Ice on the ocean. Icebergs. trying- to save them, but I think they will not succeed. Even thevessels are in danger.
Harper's story booksA series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the youngEmbellished with numerous and beautiful engravings . THE ICE FRESHET. of it. The masses of ice sweptdown by the current grind againsteach other, and press irresistiblyonward, crushing every thing thatopposes them. Observe how theboats are jammed about. Someare thrown almost out of the wa-ter. The men in the boats are INUNDATIONS. 129 Vessels in danger. Ice on the ocean. Icebergs. trying- to save them, but I think they will not succeed. Even thevessels are in danger. The pressure of the great blocks againstthe sides of them may do them great damage. A crowd of men have collected on the shore to witness themovement of the ice. Some of them are shouting to the men inthe boats and in the vessels. Vessels are often in great danger from cakes of floating ice atsea, especially in making the passage from America to about a thousand miles of the voyage, after leaving New Yorkor Boston, the track of the ship is protected on the north by theshores of Maine, of New Brunswick, and of Newfoundland. Afterpassing Cape Race, however, which is
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