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discovery of new land was merely secondary. The first 

 ice was seen on the 15th of January in latitude 59° 20' S. 

 and longitude 55° 10' W. — broken fragments of an 

 iceberg — and soon after, an iceberg appeared in sight. 

 After this D'Urville steered between the South Orkney 

 Isles and the Elephant and Clarence group, reaching the 

 edge of the pack-ice, fast breaking up in the sunshine, on 

 the 22nd of January, in latitude 63° 39' S. and longitude 



Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville. 



44° 47' W. However, the ships sailed timidly along the 

 edge of the ice, which extended to the north-east. On the 

 24th of January the place was passed — latitude 63° 23' S. 

 and longitude 42° 57' W. — which had been seen almost 

 entirely clear of ice on the 1st of March, 1823, by Weddell. 

 The detailed, nay trivial, description which D'Urville 

 gives of the ice-edge is extremely tedious reading : we 

 will therefore spare the reader a further account. 



