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below, and unless moved by extraordinary increase of 

 sea, from swells, or solution of inland ice, they are known 

 to remain for years. Some of the sailors in the Thomas 

 recognized in this bay two of several years' continuance, 



gazing on the luminary itself: procellaria glacialis, colymbiis gloci- 

 tans and troile, larus eburneus. 



July 12: ther. 33°, 40°, 28°: wind variable, at times calm: 

 cirrostratus generally diffused : some whales seen ; also a monodon 

 monoceros of great size: two groups of seals in emigration passed to 

 the northward : numerous flocks of colymbus glocitans at a very 

 great elevation passing in the same direction : at noon the zenith 

 clearing : extensive cirrocumulus of snowy whiteness appeared above : 

 at the same time a berg, not far distant, burst with a noise resembling 

 thimder, which continued heavy and long in reiteration over the 

 ice : an immense flaw is descending rapidly from the northward : 

 larus maximus and eburneus, colymbus grylle, P. glacialis. 



July 13: ther. 30°, 49°, 32°: wind N., light and variable: the 

 sun obscured with greyish cirrostratus : the weather delightfully fine : 

 a female whale killed : the longest lamina (whale-bone) measured 

 nine feet ten inches : clio retusa, and many species of medusa, are 

 very numerous in these waters : at ten a. m. the wind changed to 

 W.S.W. light breeze: soon after the thermometer indicated forty- 

 nine, when the glass was covered with condensed vapour in diops : 

 cirrocumulus in snowy exhibition decorated the zenith : latitude ob- 

 served at noon 74° 45' N. : at this time the wind came from the 

 southward, fresh breeze : many flaws of ice around. 



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