. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . much further out to the east-ward than the northern did ; and I had argued thatwe might begin to feel the current of Baffins Bay ina very few days, though we were still considerablyto the west of a line drawn from one cape to the question received its solution without waiting forthe moon. I give from my journal our position in the ice on the11th of January: ^^January 11, Saturday. The floe in which we arenow imbedded
. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . much further out to the east-ward than the northern did ; and I had argued thatwe might begin to feel the current of Baffins Bay ina very few days, though we were still considerablyto the west of a line drawn from one cape to the question received its solution without waiting forthe moon. I give from my journal our position in the ice on the11th of January: ^^January 11, Saturday. The floe in which we arenow imbedded has been steadily increasing in solid-ity for more than a month. Since the 8th of Decem-ber, not a fracture or collision has occurred to mar itsgrowth. The eye can not embrace its extent. Evenfrom the mast-head you look over an unbounded ex-panse of naked ice, bristling with contorted spires, andridged by elevated axes of hummocks. The land oneither side rises above our icy horizon ; but to the east,and west, there is no such interception to our wintery-ness. The brig remains as she was tossed at our provi-dential escape of last month, her nose burrowing in the. THE ADVANCE IN FEBRUARY.
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