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REVIEW. 
ing rise to a rudely pentagonal arrangement not un- 
like a tesselated pavement. To such an extent had 
this increased hy the night of the 13th, that we lost 
all povi^er of progress. 
A¥hen morning opened around us, we found our- 
selves in the midst of a great area of five-sided tiles, 
marked at their lines of junction hy a slightly uplift- 
ed ridge : this would already hear a man. From this 
moment until the date of our escape, nine months 
after, our sails were without use ; and our move- 
ments, as well as our destinies, were regulated hy 
our ice-jailer. By the 20th of Octoher, the floe im- 
mediately ahout us was twenty inches thick ; and it 
had so interlocked itself with other ice-fields of differ- 
ent diameters, that to the eye it hecame a part of a 
great plain, terminated only hy the headlands of the 
shores, and a narrow water-channel which separated 
us from them. 
