TO THE ARCFRIC REGIONS. AY 
jine rose from its base, or at right angles with the 
surface ot the water; and in addition to these cir- 
cumstances, it was full of vertical fissures, or rents, 
which showed, in a very unequivocal manner, the 
danger of approaching too near. The depth of 
water alongside of it was found to be one hundred 
and twenty fathoms; and, as it appeared from the 
tide-mark on it, to be aground, its height above the 
surface of the water might be estimated at one hun- 
dred and twenty feet ; for the proportion of the ice, 
above, to that below the surface of the water, will 
generally be found to be nearly as one is to seven. 
We shot a seal this evening, of the common species. 
(Phoca Vitulina, Lin.) He was lying on a piece of 
ice at the time. It is unnecessary to give any de- 
scription of him, as he differed in no respect from 
the seals that are seen on our own coast: his length, 
from the snout to the tail, was five feet one inch, and 
the circumference round the thickest part of the 
body three feet six inches. 
Wednesday, 21st.—The weather cleared up to-day 
for the first time for some days past; and about 
eight o’clock A.M. we had a very good, although 
a distant view, of the coast of Greenland, bearing 
by compass from south to east of us. ‘The moun- 
tain called by Davis, «‘ Hope Sanderson,’”’ was rea- 
dily recognised by such of us as had seen it last year ; 
although its distance from us was estimated to be 
about forty miles: it bore, by compass, 8° S. 30’ E. 
Some of the Women Islands were also in sight. It 
appeared to me that there was more snow on this 
part of the coast, than there was last year when we 
passed it ; but our distance from it was too great to 
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