. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. STRANDED. in the water now, but a few large icebergs were constantly in sight They taught us in school that there was seven times more ice underthe water than out of it, he said, pointing to a monster slowly movingacross their bows. Thats two hundred feet high at least, isnt it ? Doyou believe theres fourteen hundred feet of water under us ? 68 FROM LABRADOR TO GREENLAND. No, nor half that, Roy replied. Lets throw the lead and see. We havent tried taking soundings yet. I told you so ! said Roy triumphantly, as they marked j
. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. STRANDED. in the water now, but a few large icebergs were constantly in sight They taught us in school that there was seven times more ice underthe water than out of it, he said, pointing to a monster slowly movingacross their bows. Thats two hundred feet high at least, isnt it ? Doyou believe theres fourteen hundred feet of water under us ? 68 FROM LABRADOR TO GREENLAND. No, nor half that, Roy replied. Lets throw the lead and see. We havent tried taking soundings yet. I told you so ! said Roy triumphantly, as they marked just eighty fathoms or four hundred and eighty feet, on a hundred fathom tine. F Hfe. GRAPPLING WITH AN ENORMOUS WHALE. Theres seven times more ice — only its spread out more and solid,sir, said a sailor, and the boys looked at each other and resolved not tobe quite so quick in coming to conclusions, in the face of science, in thefuture. They passed a few more whalers and one or two Danish brigs, anda chunky little steamer working through the ice, but did not come insight of land. Three times a day they took the most careful observa-tions, and each time seemed to be farther and farther north, while bydead reckoning, by log and compass, they should be almost in the middleof Greenland. Again the old sailor was of value in calling to mind what they alreadyknew but had forgotten to apply, that there was always a great variationof the compass in the far north, when the north pole and the magnetic pole
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