IX.] 
STOPPED BY ICE. 
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were therefore compelled after some hours’ sailing to lie-to at a 
ground-ice to await more favourable circumstances. The wind 
had now gone from west to north and north-west. Notwith¬ 
standing this the temperature became milder and the weather 
rainy, a sign that great open stretches of water lay to the north 
and north-west of us. During the night before the 21st it 
rained heavily, the wind being N.N.W. and the temperature -p 
2°. An attempt was made on that day to find some place where 
PIECES OF ICE FROM IHE COAST OF THE CHURCH PENIHSPLA. 
(After a drawiag by O. Nordquist.) 
the belt of drift-ice that was pressed against the land could be 
broken through, but it was unsuccessful, probably in consequence 
of the exceedingly dense fog which prevailed. 
Dredging gave but a scanty yield here, probably because the 
animal life in water so shallow as that in which we were 
anchored, is destroyed by the ground-ices, which drift about 
here for the greater part of the year. Excursions to the neigh¬ 
bouring coast on the other hand, notwithstanding the late season 
