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abated violence, and the ship drove to the south- 

 ward amongst loose ice and heavy floes, which 

 from the darkness of the night we could neither see 

 nor avoid." The admirable manner, he says, in 

 which the little Griper had been strengthened, al- 

 lowed her to bear the severe shocks without being 

 injured ; the heaviest shocks she received must 

 have knocked a Greenlandman to pieces. 



The gale continuing drove them to the south- 

 ward, and on the 23rd of September they made the 

 coast of Norway in latitude 63° 55 r . On the 1st of 

 October the Griper struck hard on a sunken rock, 

 and got off undamaged ; on the 4th entered Dront- 

 heim Fiord, and on the 6th anchored in the har- 

 bour; and "we were received," says Clavering, 

 " with the greatest kindness and hospitality." 

 Captain Sabine having completed his experiments 

 here, the Griper proceeded down the fiord on the 

 13th of October, was detained in the narrows till 

 the 19th, and again windbound till the 3rd of 

 December, when she was liberated, and reached 

 Deptford on the 19th of that month, 1823. 



We now proceed to give a brief account of 

 Captain Sabine s labours. 



The volume of Captain Sabine, from which the 

 following notice is taken, affords an extraordinary 

 instance of personal and mental application, on dis- 

 tant voyages and various climates within the tropics 

 and the Arctic regions, and of intellectual exertion 



