230 SHEDS TAKEN DOWN. [CHAP.V. 



32 W. ; barometer 29. 53, and temperature of 

 air 30° — A parhelion was observed. 



In a very short time the ice got into motion, 

 and in a small lane on the starboard quarter 

 appeared to be setting south. At 3 h p. m. the 

 same lane closed, and another immediately 

 opened at a short distance from it. At 4\ the 

 edge of the floe from west to north displayed 

 signs of considerable pressure, which, affecting 

 the ice alongside, drove it onwards with a rum- 

 bling noise so as to heel the ship over to 

 starboard. The beam whale-boat being thus 

 brought too near the ice, was hoisted half up 

 the main rigging. The shed too, which had been 

 so long familiar to our sight as the armourer's 

 work-shop was now necessarily taken down 

 and the spars, sails, ice-anchor, &c, brought on 

 board. At 8 h p. m. a barrier was thrown up 

 nine feet high on the starboard bow, and, owing 

 to some under convulsion, the large pieces of 

 the floe on that side were much cracked and 

 broken ; besides which, the chink astern leading 

 to the edge of the floe in that direction 

 became sufficiently wide to admit of the 

 water being seen through it. There was only 

 a light air of w r ind rather off-shore, so that these 

 changes must have been occasioned principally 

 by irregular tides. At 10 h 30 m p. m. several 



