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Marshal's Bay, which we reached on the 27th of June, 

 is, by the sweep which the current makes round its 

 northern arm, a resting place for bergs,* where, from 

 their great weight, they fasten on the projecting rocks 



specially to the appearance of the cumulostratus in Davis's Strait : 

 ursus maritimus, colymbus glocitans, and larus eljurneus ; the latter 

 very active and plunging in the sea, probably at the Clio Retusa which 

 appeared very numerous this day : wind at noon, soft light breeze at W. : 

 afternoon the wind coming from S.W. with dark grey ciiTostratus : 

 to the northward, and close to the horizon, lay a broad belt of 

 deep yellow intermixed with brown and red : this phenomenon is 

 rare in Davis Strait, but is frequent in the Spitzbergen seas : it is 

 denominated field blinc, being present wherever a continuous tract of 

 bergy ice occurs. 



July 11: ther. 32°, 40^ 33°: wind N. by W. Ught breeze: cu-- 

 rostratus greyish-brown, thinly diffused, which as it passes over the 

 zenith admits of a view : cutus and cuTocumulus at a vast height 

 above, apparently in the most tranquil state. The water is intensely 

 blue : at noon a well-marked nimbus appeared advancing from the 

 northward : latitude observed 74° 42' N. : the yellow bhnk still 

 visible : the sun-light passing through the denser parts of the cirro- 

 stratus in the south-west, the cloud in places became intensely bright, 

 and very painful to the sight, so that the eye would be less distressed 



* A bay north of Jacob's Bay, and near Black Hook is remarkably so, 

 and thence is named Bergy Bay. 



