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discharged into the ocean. Those which are hiunched in the 

 inlets are apt to be retained by the shores and melt before 

 they escape to the sea , of those which start on their journey 

 many become stranded on the shallows, and brc^ak into small 

 pieces, so that they are rapidl)- melted ; yet others, including'- 

 probably nearly all which are formed on the eastern shore of 



View at the Mouth of a Greenland Fiord 

 Showing: the steep precipitous character of the coast, with a number of small bergs floating; from the inlet. 



Greenland, are retained near their place of origin by the 



action of the wind and the marine currents. It does not seem 



likely that more than one or two hundred large icebergs make 



their way each year in the only practicable path that can take 



them beyond the Arctic Circle — that which is afforded by the 



current which sets out of Uavis Strait, and down the Labrador 



shore, and then eastward into the Atlantic. Although we 

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