SAJSTD DUNES AND SALT MARSHES 



to form in places a solid shelf,— an *^ ice-foot." 

 But in most places, during weather like this 

 the ocean is beset with floating cakes of ice, 

 and with newly forming ice which in the heav- 

 ing and churning of the sea appears like 

 grains of sago, and later takes the form of 

 small rounded or many-sided cakes with raised 

 edges, the " slob-ice " of the Labrador coast, 

 the '^ pancake ice " of Scorseby. Every- 

 where beyond the ice and in the open leads 

 the sea seems to boil and great clouds of mist 

 roll upward, for the warmer water of the sea 

 actually steams in this arctic weather, and the 

 distant view is obscured. Here are patches 

 and lanes of black water, there, bands of solid 

 floe brilliantly white in the sunlight. Ice- 

 bergs, the most magnificent arctic phenom- 

 ena, once seen, always to be treasured in the 

 memory, do not appear on this coast. It is 

 far too distant from the parent glaciers. 



On one occasion, in February, when the 

 thermometer was six degrees below zero, and 

 the water was covered with pancake ice, I 

 heard in the still air a sighing, whistling note, 

 an aeolian-harp-like sound, which appeared 

 to have its source in the heaving, churning 

 ice-cakes. 



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