the polab seas. 
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water. Scoresbv 
tbeso icy m 0 untam 8 n Wt P trf- ° V n f 7 ’ aS Englisb mariners call 
siiouia throw his vessel him 7 ^ Whlle he did s0 ’ dreadin g lcst it 
? ass The aspect of tCT^m ^ mt ° tbe air before he could 
it is an incoherent chaos res , 7 ^ m a thcmsaud ways. Here 
m all directions, bristling wdtl mg , S ° m ® volcaill c rocks, with crevices 
; bere it is astrongly-antrked lL nShaP 7 U ° CkS pil ° d " P at Tandom i 
bl °cks of ic e of every a <m and ““T 8 ® mosaic formed of vast 
marked by long ridSs o°f the " d ™* m of illicit are 
> walls f r* ; S ° metimeS — 
chains 0 f hills, with great rounded sfmmite ' 
the pieces 8 o^hghtf^ 1 which' unite break «P> 
f ** ^ to -It ; the seveS UoS ^ ^ massS 
the water soon disperses them and the™ &epaiate > mid the motion 
passage. But a day 'of calm ^w jt 7 “ **** a 
masses, which osciUate and grind against ™ 1 7™*® the dispersed 
no.se, which sailors compare to the S 1 ° ther with a strange 
a is shut up in 0 ne 1 ^ 
cable changes sometimes occur in he Tst T 1Ce ~ Mda > ines Pli' 
Vessels, which think themselves 
h Z T P My ****** their posMon, ' T & 
" l0rt dlsta nce from each other were dri 1 * hpS shut in at a 
Wmg able to perceive any change in the T “7 leagUe8 without 
tunes ships are drawn with the Lit 8 *™ uridln g ice. At other 
who make long voyages at J 7 1Ce - fields > Iike tbe white bears 
the Dutch vessel the W/Jl 7 ■ P ° n ^ ese m °nstor vehicles In 1777 
P8ri “' 
ftt in tile ice in the mM e °f ftft rf , Sir Mm ftnnklin, m, 
ft* fc nine months which he A ft “ Wdli “S‘« Start. 
yearly thirteen hundred miles towards H d 1 m ca P tivit y> be drifted 
d,Sr fc y Ca Ptain Kellet in an ice-field ^f ^ the sbip totfufe, 
tGd to wards the south with this vas T® extent ’ was 
distance. tnis Vft st mass to a much g re at P1 . 
