the polar sear. 
hesitate to^yp, 7' i . nUmerous and threatening. D’Urville did not 
enormous i Ce } JP L 7? corvettes through the middle of the hand of 
approach to it 17 , ' V 1 seemed to guard the Pole and forbid his 
that they had reason m ° monts his vessels were so surrounded 
shock, some ^ 11 ®’ °“ moment to moment , some terrible 
around these floating icebmt^ w Jr ^ t0 tWs ’ the Sea P roduces 
on the shin to the 1 j 7 ’ whlch were not unlikely to draw 
instant. * was threatened at every 
10 any,, ■■ f, t mceel 0 J ' T| ie W “ ,L ’ » f *J«i Mocks of ice," 
hang our ships whose dimen ' * ^gmgs m. height; they over- 
born to be wit tht ? 77 ridic "y curtailed. We 
the foot of these gigantic moitmite ° f City ° f giants ' At 
hy the waves, which are engulfed tliei ^ oaTBma hollowed 
sun darts his oblique rays uS 1h W * T ^ Wlt * The 
anting effects t t t a T7 ° f ice 88 if * were 
startling. From the summit of these ™ ^ magica l and 
7 the meltin g ice produced by the suinZr^’TT™ br0oks > fed 
these regmns, throw themse^ in cascades intthe ^ SUU k 
Occasionally these iecl,^,. „ , lnto tho my sea. 
land entirely, and we only perceive two walk mT ^ aSt ° C ° DCeal tlle 
sonorous echoes send hack the word of t . thr / ateilin g “e, whose 
corvette which followed 1 “ ° f ** ^ 
so slender, that the ship’s crew were 1 - PP f 80 Sma11 ’ and its masts 
hour we only saw vertical waUg of f ,? U “ W1 ' ‘ f 1 ™ 1 ’’ P ° r nearl y an 
hasm, formed on one side hy the clnm ohT’ 7 reached a 
had traversed, and on the other by lnl 1 ^ ^ wUch they 
thousand feet, rugged and rmdukr ” h , an ' nsuig three and four 
a ll with an icy mantle, which ^ ? tPe surface - hut clothed over 
whiteness by the rays of the sun Th dazzluigl y im P osiu g in its 
he ship’s boats through a labyrinth In 7* ^ ^ a,We * 
tying opposite to the coast Tho V <!ebcr gs up to a little islet 
the French flag was nZeil ^7 the la » d at this islet; 
tjnent, and, in proof 0 f possession sMne° U 7** taken ° f the new c °u- 
the scarped and denuded cliffs. These ° f “** Were tom from 
g tleiss - The southern continent tb T *7?° ° f quartzite 
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