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ICE. 



iled 



p 



on tlic 



•veniently lifted into the boat; and then they are pi 

 <quarter-deck, where the ialt-water, adhering to its outfide, fooii 

 'drains away ; and, as the contad of the deck and warmer atmo- 

 ^fphere contributes to diffolve fome part of the ice, the reft becomes 



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q 



frefl 



W 



this ice the boiler is filled 



may 



tin 



le 



b 



fiich 



pieces 



more readily be diftblved. Other ice is 



as will go through the bung-holes into the w^ater-cafks ; and when 



there 13 not room for more, the interftices are filled up, with the 



■- r 



from the boiler, which foon melts the fmall p 



of 



the calk. 



When we came to leeward of extenfive portions of fmall drifting 



w 



ice, or fuch as the Greenlandmen Q.2l\ packed, i. e. on the edges of 

 which, by the fea and preffure of the ice, fmall pieces are forced 

 up, we always found the fea fmooth ; and this vv^a-s the appearance, 

 when we entered the loofe ice on January the 17-th, 1773, in Gf 

 \ 5^ South latitude 3 but, on the weather-fide of the ice, there was 

 a great fwell and high furf. Whenever we approached large trads 

 .of folid ice, we obfcx^ved, on the horizon, a white reflexion from the 

 -fnow and ice, which the Greenlandmen call the blink of the ice: io 



feeing this phasnomenon app 



were 



fure to be with 



, few leagues of the ice ; and it was at that time likewife, that we 

 commonly noticed flights of white petrels of the fize of pigeons, 



which we xalkd fnowy petrel 



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