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ICEBERGS, 



the view over black barren rocks, and in the 

 aspect of the shore. This being Sunday, I 

 preached in the morning, catechized the young 

 people in the afternoon, and had divine service 

 again in the evening, as was our custom every 

 sabbath in crossing the Atlantic, when the 

 weather would permit : and it afforded me 

 much pleasure to witness the sailors at times 

 in groups reading the life of Newton, or some 

 religious tracts which I put into their hands. 

 The Scotch I found generally well and scrip- 

 turally informed, and several of them joined the 

 young people in reading to me the New Testa- 

 tament, and answering the catechetical ques- 

 tions. In our passage through the Straits, our 

 progress was impeded by vast fields of ice, and 

 icebergs floating past us in every form of deso- 

 late magnificence. The scene was truly grand 

 and impressive, and mocks imagination to 

 describe. There is a solemn and an over- 

 whelming sensation produced in the mind, by 

 these enormous masses of snow and ice, not 

 to be conveyed in words. They floated by 

 us from one to two hundred feet above the 

 water, and sometimes of great length, re- 

 sembling huge mountains, with deep vallies 

 between, lofty cliffs, and all the imposing objects 

 in nature, passing in silent grandeur, except 



