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frozen dock.' 
PHEKOMBNA OF THE OCEAN- 
,’Anl attempt was made to cut 
frozen docK. .... — .„,iv 
through the ice.; but after a perseverance triuy 
Britons, it proved ineffectual The ^ bc ^ 
Bntons, ii proveu Uicuci.vuai. 
at all times master of himself, directed ™ 
ready to be hauled over the ice, till they snou 
. ii .... in them to make tlie i,g > , 
reaoy u> uc uau.cu w..-. ...- ^ ^ 
cable water, proposing m them to make ti e 
England ; but after they had thus been drawn o th« j. 
for three progressive days, a wind having spm g j,egl>'Sj* 
* tn vif»ld to the oressure oi - i» i 
lor inree progic^Mvc ^ x 
tparated sufficiently to yield to the pressui jgjipg 
full sail. After having laboured against the e |..^g 
full sail. After having latwurea againsi. u.c 
of ice, they at length reached the harbour ot 
at the west end of Spitzbergen. u- 
The vast islands of floating ice which aboun ^ j 
□uthern latitudes, are f Fonf 'hat tW 
these islands in lamuaeoo " ' The top. 
high, and half a rnile in circuit, being j J,, ^ I 
sides, against which the sea broke exceeding V 
i>crpendicular direction. In the afternoon o f 
the 10 th of December, 1773, he tell lcng‘5' 
cubical mass of ice, about two thousand feet m ^ 
hundred feet in breadth, and in height ^o 1 
Mr. Foster, the naturalist of the voyage, re^ 
cording to the experiments of Boyle and Mana 
Z' • _ P A^ a 1 * f-nm ^xrofAr n#»arlv as 10 to y • , -10 W 
corumg vu lAiv. j ^ 
of ice is to that of sea water nearly as 10 ^ ! lutii® , 
by the known rules of hydrostatics, the tb^’V. 
which rises above the surface of the watei , i jj,)S 
sinks below it as 1 to 9 . Supposing, .therefo 
ice to have been of a regular hgure, its dep o^c^ A 
must have been 1800 feet, and its whole be g ^ n 
estimating its length, as above, at 2000 ieet, ^ ^ j(gi^ 
at 400 feet, ihe entire mass must have con 
lions of cubic feet of ice. ^ 
Two days after, several other icc-islan^ It'S 
of them nearly two miles in circuit, and W s«‘ 
yet such was the force of the waves, tna „ie'C 
quite over them. I'licy exhibited lor a ^^ei" *^ 111 * 
very pleasing to the eye ; but a sense ot 'J; 
the mind with horror; for had the ship ‘ st» . 
weather side of one ot these islands,^ when 
she must in an instant 
isianus, w,.-y ,icc 
have been dashed ' 
