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■water ; and the whole will then amount to 6,969 600,000 cubic 

 feet of folid ice, which muil of courfe be a flupendous mafs. 



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enormous fize of thefe icy maile 



nly objed: of 



afloniiliment, for the great number of them is equally furprizing. 

 In the year, 1773 on the 26th, of December, Vv^e counted i86maires 

 of ice all in fight from the mail head, whereof none was lefs than 

 the hull of a Hiip. At other times we were every Vv^here furrounded 



by 



illands, or obliged to alter 



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thefe 



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faw 



fl:ru(fled by an immenfc field of ice. 



firft fmall pieces of loofe, broken ice, full of holes and pores like 



a fpunge, thus wailed by the continual agitation of the waves; be- 



of an immenfe 



hind them appeared large flat and folid maifes, 



tent. Between them we obferved ilupendous large and high ic 



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iflands, likewife folid but formed in the moil ilrange manner into 

 points, fpires and broken rocks. All this fcene of ice extended 



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as far as the eye could reach. Hoy/ever, it is likewife remarkable, 

 that in diiferent years, feafons and places of the fea, we found the 

 •ice diiferently fituated. In the year 1772, December the' loth, we 

 faw the ice between 50" and 51" of Southern latitude. In 1773 on 

 December the 12th, we found the firil ice in 62° South latitude. 



\x\ iJJS.> in January the 27Lh, we faw ice in about 60° South lati- 

 tude. On February the 24th, we came to the fame place, where 

 about 26 months before, we had met with fueh an impenetrable 



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