TO THE ARCTIC REGIONS, Q58 
subject, | have no doubt that people living a little 
more affluently than we have been for some time 
past, would not relish even the best parts very 
much at first, but it is a taste which, like many 
others, I think might easily be acquired. 
Friday 11th.— Nothing has occurred during 
these two days past worthy of particular notice. 
The ice, as I have already remarked, drives one 
time to the eastward and at another time to the 
westward, according to the set of the tide or di- 
rection of the wind; but it never leaves a clear 
space of any magnitude in either way, so that we 
have as little prospect of getting on as we had the 
first day we made fast here. 
Monday, 14th. — I formed a piece of floe-ice to- 
day (taken indiscriminately from alongside) into 
a cube whose sides measured one foot, two inches 
seven-tenths, which, when put into salt-water at the 
temperature of 34° and of the specific gravity 
1.0105, one inch and eight-tenths of it remained 
above the surface of the water, or rather more than 
one-eighth of the whole mass. Judging therefore 
of the thickness of the floes in this neighbourhood, 
from the proportion of them above the surface of 
the water, we are led to conclude that their average 
thickness is from forty to fifty feet, and many of 
them much more. 
Tuesday, 15th. — The ice having been observed 
early this morning to clear off the coast for a little 
way to the westward, we got under weigh at five 
o’clock, A. M., and ran about two miles along 
shore, when we were obliged to make fast again 
at six, the ice being close in with the land. All- 
