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Davis' Straits. 



the numberless icebergs clotted around the horizon, 

 which imagination could almost fancy to be steep 

 cliffs and head-lands surmouuted in some instances 

 by castles and towers. 



To enhance the general wintry aspect, snow was 

 falling heavily during the forenoon, the deck and 



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Iceberg 



rigging being completely covered ; the captain him- 

 self with his beard and whiskers so encrusted as to 

 resemble, with his portly person and jovial face, the 

 drawings of Father Christmas. We were nearly 

 sixteen hours before we succeeded in extricating 

 ourselves from our icy prison, during which time 



