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The fields continued to overlay each other with a 

 majestic motion, producing a noise resembling 

 that of complicated machinery, or distant thunder. 

 The pressure was so immense, that numerous 

 fissures were occasioned, and the ice repeatedly 

 rent beneath my feet. In one of the fissures, I 

 found the snow on the level to be three and a half 

 feet deep, and the ice upwards of twelve. In one 

 place, hummocks had been thrown up to the 

 height of twenty feet from the surface of the field, 

 and at least twenty-five feet from the level of the 

 water ; they extended fifty or sixty yards in length, 

 and fifteen in breadth, forming a mass of about 

 two thousand tons in weight. The majestic un- 

 varied movement of the ice — the singular noise 

 with which it was accompanied — the tremendous 

 power exerted — and the wonderful effects produ- 

 ced — were calculated to excite sensations of novelty 

 and grandeur, in the mind of even the most care- 

 less Spectator ,' 



" Sometimes these motions of the ice may be ac- 

 counted for. Fields are disturbed by currents — 

 the wind — or the pressure of other ice against 

 them. Though the set of the current be general- 

 ly towards the south-west, yet it seems occasional- 

 ly to vary ; the wind forces all ice to leeward, 



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