. 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 . he ice-boats. There was the same crackling, and grinding,and splashing, but the indefinite extent—an ocean in-stead of a river—multiplied it to a din unspeakable;and with it came a strange undertone accompaniment,a not discordant drone. This was the floe ice; per-haps a tongue from the Great Pack, through whichwe are now every day expecting to force our way. Agreat number of bergs, of shapes the most simple andmost complicated
. 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 . he ice-boats. There was the same crackling, and grinding,and splashing, but the indefinite extent—an ocean in-stead of a river—multiplied it to a din unspeakable;and with it came a strange undertone accompaniment,a not discordant drone. This was the floe ice; per-haps a tongue from the Great Pack, through whichwe are now every day expecting to force our way. Agreat number of bergs, of shapes the most simple andmost complicated, of colors blue, white, and earth-stained, were tangled in this floating field. Such,however, was the inertia of the huge masses, that thesheet ice piled itself up about them as on fixed rocks. The sea immediately around, saving the ground-swell, was smooth as a mill-pond; but it was studdedover with dark, protruding little globules, about thesize of hens eggs, producing an eflect like the dimplesof so many overgrown rain-drops fallen on the , as I afterward found, were rounded fragmentsof transparent and fresh-w^ater ice, the debris and de- (372). GLAOiEKS Oi< JACOB S lilGHT.
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