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80 Drift Ice and Currents of the North Atlantic. 



ing water, had fallen asunder during a strong gale which had 

 prevailed from the southeast.* 



Ship St. James, Meyer, July 12, 1844, latitude 44°, longitude 

 47° 12', passed 12 large icebergs ; July 20, passed 25 do. ; and 

 July 21, passed 30 do; latitude 43° 50', longitude 52° 26', saw 

 the last of it. 



John L. Hayes, Esq., in the Boston Journal of Natural His- 

 tory, states that Capt. Crocker, of New Bedford, measured with 

 his sextant an iceberg which was aground on the Bank of New- 

 foundland, and found it to be half a mile long and two hundred 

 and forty four feet high. Also, that Capt. Matthew Luce, of New- 

 Bedford, saw an ice-island of one hundred feet in height, aground 

 in forty eight fathoms, on the Bank, and that the fishing vessels 

 had sailed around it for thirty days. 



Ship Switzerland, Knight, May 5th, 1S44, in latitude 47° N., 

 longitude 46° W. : at 5 a. m. met with a perfectly solid field of 

 ice, and the wind being N. E. hauled out to S. E. After coast- 

 ing the ice forty miles, found it turned to E., and that the ship 

 was embayed. Tacked to N., and after four tacks of one hour 

 each, the wind hauled to S. W. ; steered east a short distance 

 from the ice. Afterwards turned to the south, and the wind 

 hauling to the westward, steered S. S. W. for forty miles more, 

 when the ice became broken, and very soon was entirely clear 

 of it, having sailed eighty miles along an unbroken coast of ice, 

 exactly in appearance like low land covered with snow. The 

 wind continuing to the westward, saw more or less ice for three 

 following days, but none south of latitude 44° 43', nor west of 

 longitude 49°. 



Ship Formosa, Crawford, June 18th, 1842, latitude 38° 40', 



longitude 47° 20', saw an iceberg 100 feet high and 170 feet 

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On the passage out in the Acadia, on the 16th of May, in lat- 

 itude 46°, longitude 47°, there were seen about 100 icebergs, 

 some of them of large size, and one from 400 to 500 feet high, 

 bearing so strong a resemblance to St. Paul's, that it was at once 

 christened after that celebrated cathedral. The dome was per- 

 fect, and it required no extraordinary stretch of imagination to 

 supply the turrets, pinnacles, and other parts of the building. 



* See this Journal, Vol. xliii, 1842. 



