DRIFTING TO THE SOUTH. 



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small ice-masses, to which our field had been knitted by 

 the frost. Here and there were snow-mounds, which 

 the change from thawing weather to frost had almost 

 turned into glaciers, forming a firm massive whole. The 

 side of our field lying to the west and north-west 

 presented a wild and discouraging view. The grating 

 and pressing of the driving ice-floes had there heaped up 





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A SNOW SPHINX. 



walls ten feet high, the snow-crystals glittering in the 

 sun like millions of diamonds. The morning and evening 

 Aurora turned the white flakes to pale green. The 

 nights were beautifully light, the light streaming 

 downwards from the heavens ; and the snow, with its 



