108 PRESSURE UNEXPECTEDLY CONTINUES. 



gether regained her upright position. On be- 

 holding the walls of ice on either side between 

 which she had been nipped, I was astonished at 

 the tremendous force she had sustained. Her 

 mould was stamped as perfectly as in a die. Asto- 

 nishment however soon yielded to a more grateful 

 feeling, an admiration of the genius and mechanical 

 skill by which the Terror had been so ably pre- 

 pared for this service. We had many old Green- 

 land seamen on board, and they were unanimously 

 of opinion that no ship they had ever seen could 

 have resisted such a pressure. On sounding the 

 well she was found not to leak, though the car- 

 penters had employment enough in caulking the 

 seams on deck. 



At last the wind got round to the westward, and 

 though not a pool of water was visible, still expect- 

 ation was again on the stretch ; but though a fresh 

 breeze prevailed till the evening, and again after a 

 partial calm blew through the night, and though 

 the effect to be anticipated from this would be 

 the sending of the ice to the eastward, if moved at 

 all, yet, strange to say, the very reverse took place, 

 as the creaking of the pressed ship gave us but 

 too plainly to understand. 



On Sept. 22d. the vessel was again sharply 

 nipped, but without straining as before. At noon 

 the thermometer rose a few degrees from 15° +, 

 the point to which it had fallen in the night, and 



