134 Polar Explorations. 
expanse of level solid ice occupied the whole extent of sea 
to the westward, and the eye wearied itself in vain to dis- 
pone 0 cleared the ice, in 72° W. lon. and 74° N. lat. This 
extraordinary barrier was fifty a broader than when 
they passed it in 1819, owing probably to the severe winter, 
and the tardy summer of 1823 and 1824. They had todread | 
even ‘he possibility of being frozen up for the winter, in the 
middle of Baffin’s Bay. It startles one’s imagination, to con- 
tomplesas two > ships. in the midst of three bundred leagues of 
the masts; 
peat floes several miles i in diameter, with smaller pecan of 
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shoving by the roll of the sea. In this pet the skill ‘of 
the officers seemed unavailing, and the physical strength of 
the men impotent, but by the aid of divine protection, they 
were in this, as in many other instances, in this precarious and 
perilous cavigiies rendered effectual to their PRRSATeD AM 
hey had only reached the site proper for the commence- 
ment of their aperenee men it was again time to secure 
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ships into their winter stations. ee arrangements were 
even more complete than in preceding years; especially in an 
improved method of warming and drying the ships. The 
Sallying” is the running of the men suddenly from one side of the ship 
to the other to break the new ice by the rocking of the vessel. 
