. The Arctic world: its plants, animals and natural phenomena [microform] : with a historical sketch of Arctic discovery down to the British Polar Expedition: 1875-76. British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; Zoology; Zoologie. ICEBEllO AND ICEFIELD, MELVILLE BAY, subjects them to the action of the deeper oceiin-currents, while their broad surface abcjve the water is, of course, acted on by the wind. It happens, therefore, as Dr. Kane remarks, that they are found not infrequently moving in difl'erent directions from the floes around them, and preventin
. The Arctic world: its plants, animals and natural phenomena [microform] : with a historical sketch of Arctic discovery down to the British Polar Expedition: 1875-76. British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; Zoology; Zoologie. ICEBEllO AND ICEFIELD, MELVILLE BAY, subjects them to the action of the deeper oceiin-currents, while their broad surface abcjve the water is, of course, acted on by the wind. It happens, therefore, as Dr. Kane remarks, that they are found not infrequently moving in difl'erent directions from the floes around them, and preventing them for a time from freezing into a united mass. Still, in the late wintei-, when the cold has thoroughly set in, Mebille Bay becomes a continuous mass of ice, from Cape York to the Devil's Thumb. At other times, this region justifies the name the whalers bestowed upon it of " Bergy ; Captain Beechey, in his voyage with Buchan, in 1818, had an opportunity of witnessing the formation of a " berg," or rather of two of these innnense masses. In Magdalena Bay he had [MliiiiililMaMllib. 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 London; New York : T. Nelson
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