A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 187 



Lievely is distant from Love Bay, or Old Lievely, eight 

 miles. There is a burying-groimd above the latter in a very 

 romantic valley, where some Dutch sailors, who happened 



July 6: ther. 32°, 42°, 40°: wind W.N.W., fresh breeze : weather 

 thick with acicular snow collected into drops : the stormy blue 

 cloud invariably portends a wind from the quarter wherein it 

 appears, as is the case in the wind of this day which followed the 

 indication of the preceding : the stormy blue cloud of yesterday, 

 when observed, lay at a distance of about ten leagues : latitude 

 observed at noon was 73° 42' N. : a cumulostratus over the land 

 to the eastward with accessory cumulus, which soon dispersed : land 

 distant about eight leagues : in the afternoon passed the largest 

 berg yet seen, more than 140 feet above the surface of the sea, and 

 having a channelled summit like one already noticed : the body of 

 this berg was riven into caverns, and its water edge was heaped with 

 fragments like mountain debris ; this was most observable on its 

 north-eastern side, from which it would appear that a wind from that 

 point had forced this mass through the islands, whilst in the straining 

 these caverns were formed, the ruins of which were forced by the 

 wind and waves back upon the berg in the manner just mentioned : 

 throughout the afternoon the atmosphere continued clear and dry, 

 yet somewhat chUl from the presence of numerous straggling 

 flt^ws : colymbus grylle and glocitans, proceUaria glacialis and sterna 

 hirundo. 



At midnight the wind set in at S.W. light breeze, at which time 

 a milky stratus encii-cled the horizon, and in the point of wind a 



