. An account of the Arctic regions [microform] : with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 'J!48 ACCOUNT OF THE AMCTIC REGIONS. lot and dismay must be the predominant feelings. The whale-fishers at all times require unremitting vigilance to secure their safety, but scarcely in any situation so much, as when navigating amidst those fields: in foggy weather, they are particularly dan- gerous, as their motions cannot then be distinctly observed. It may easily be imagined, that the strongest ship is but an insignificant impediment between t
. An account of the Arctic regions [microform] : with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 'J!48 ACCOUNT OF THE AMCTIC REGIONS. lot and dismay must be the predominant feelings. The whale-fishers at all times require unremitting vigilance to secure their safety, but scarcely in any situation so much, as when navigating amidst those fields: in foggy weather, they are particularly dan- gerous, as their motions cannot then be distinctly observed. It may easily be imagined, that the strongest ship is but an insignificant impediment between two fields in motion. Numbers of vessels, since the establishment uf the fishery, have been thus destroyed; some have been thrown upon the ice, some have had their hulls completely torn open, or divided in two, and others have been overrun by the ice, and buried beneath its heaped fragments. The Dutch have lost as many as twenty-three sail of ships, among the ice, in one year. In the sea- son of 1684, fourteen of their ships were wrecked, and eleven more remained beset during the winter. In the year 1804, I had a good opportunity of witnessing the effects produced by the lesser masses in motion. Passing between two fields of bay- ice, about a foot in thickness, they were observed rapidly to approach each other, and before our ship could pass the strait, they met with a veloci- ty of three or four miles per hour : the one over- laid the other, and presently covered many acres of surface. The ship proving an obstacle lo the course of the ice, it squeezed up on both sides, shaking her in a dreadful mannc, and producing. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Scoresby, William, 1789-1857. Edinburgh; [London] : Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. , Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson and Co. .. London
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