WEATHER. 



terrific, and sublime spectacle ; and the human 

 mind cannot conceive any thing more awful , 

 than the destruction of a ship, by the meeting 

 of two enormous fields of ice, advancing 

 against each other at the rate of several miles 

 an hour. " It may easily be imagined," says 

 Captain Scoresby, " that the strongest ship can 

 no more withstand the shock of the contact of 

 two fields, than a sheet of paper can stop a 

 musket-ball. Numbers of vessels since the 

 establishment of the Whale Fishery have been 

 thus destroyed. Some have been thrown upon 

 the ice. Some have had their hulls completely 

 thrown open, and others have been buried 

 beneath the heaped fragments of the ice." — 



Sunday, the 6th. — Text in the morning 1st 

 book Samuel, 30th chapter, latter part of the 

 6th verse. The weather was very variable, 

 with much thunder and lightening ; which was 

 awful and impressive. On the 12th the ther- 

 mometer was below freezing point, and the 

 rigging of the ship was covered with large 

 icicles. Intense fogs often prevailed, but of 

 very inconsiderable height. They would 

 sometimes obscure the hull of the ship, when 

 the mast head was seen, and the sun was 

 visible and effulgent. 



In the evening of the 13th, the sailors gave 



