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i-'llccl of a severe sliock (and such neciii' licnM nii a IukI)- lll.c 

 a i;lacici', alreatl\- in inntiDii, and ti'a\'ersc(l I))' fissures! I ran 

 readily belicxe thai the Nv.iter wduUI lie f.iirl)' beate-n back nut 

 ft tile deepest channel, and then letniniuL; with an n\ erwhehiiuit;- 

 force, would whirl about hu-e masses of rock like so much 

 chaff In Eyre's Sound, in the latitude of I'aris, there arc 

 immense glaciers, ami )'et the loftiest neighbouring mountain 

 is only 6200 feet high. In this Sound, abuut fift>' icebergs were 

 seen at one time floating outwards, and one of them must have 

 been (?/ /(■<«/ 16S feet in total lieight. Some of the icebergs 

 were loaded with block-, of no inconsideraI)le si/i;, of gr.mite 



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and other rocks, different from the clay-slate of the surrounding 

 mountains. The glacier farthest from the Pole, sur\'c\'cd 

 during the vo)'agcs of the ^'Id'rctitKvc and JitdQ-h-, is in lat. 46 ' 

 50', in the Gulf of Penas. It is 15 miles long, and in one 

 part 7 broad, and descends to the sea-coast. But c\'cn a few 

 miles northward of this glacier, in the Laginia de San K.ifiel, 

 sr)me Spanish missicinarics " encountered "many icebergs, some 

 great, some small, and others middle-sized," in a narrow arm 

 of the sea, on the 22nd of the month corresponding with our 



1 Bulkeley's and (lammnt?. /'nil/i/iil iVarra/^7u- oj llic I.om of tlic [Wvtr. The 

 eartlir|uake hnppened August 25, 1741. 



2 AgiiL-rus, Dcsc. I/isi. ,/,: Cliiloc, p. 227. 



