PKOriLE OF FLOE ; rORf SICE. 
PROFILE or FLOE ; STARBOARl>. 
CHAPTER XLIV. 
‘‘‘June 6. Our bumping continued all night, with- 
out any apparent effect upon our sticking-plaster. 
Acting, as this impact does, at the long end of a lev- 
er, our stern being immovably fixed, it must be hard 
upon the rudder post, a beam that is now protruding 
from the least strengthened part of our brig into a 
transparent glue of tenacious ice. The twelve-feet 
saw, suspended from a tripod of spars, is at work, try- 
ing to cut a line across the mass to our keel. But for 
this appendage, we would be now warping through 
the fissures. ' , , 
