' \Vej 
^ 6 , 
tsyi 
AND CADET. 
TOR THE SPY 
Messrs. Editors — 
I he British Newspapers inform us,that 
the/Greenland Whale Fishery has been 
very unproductive this year, owing to a 
superabundance of ice in the Greenland 
sea. The most plausible reasoning that 
occurs to me > re!ative to this circumstance, 
is as follows. The unusual quantity of 
ice now found in the sea, between Spits 
bergen, the North Cape, and Greenland^ 
most probably owing to excessive 
rains this year in the concave temperate 
regions, producing great floods in the ri¬ 
vers, and bringing down from the interior 
lakes, inland 3eas,.Vnd straits, all the ice 
accumulated on their surface, discharging 
it into the Spitsbergen sea, which sea, 
being overflowed with the surplus water 
thus poured into it, carried the ice on¬ 
wards to the Greenland sea, to the great 
annoyance of the fishermen. Why the 
rain in the northern concave hemisphere 
should be unusually great this year, may 
be owing to the same cause—whatever 
that cause may be—which has at the same 
tune produced an unusual quantity here. 
There is another circumstance which 
has probably made the ice more annoying 
’to the fishing vessels than common, viz: 
It was announced last summer, in the 
Copenhagen Gazette, that the winter at 
Iceland, last past, was unusually severe 
in proportion to other winters; whilst the 
winter in the rest of Europe, les9 high 
north, was milder than usual Now if Ice¬ 
land is close under the verge, as I de- 
scribe it to be in my map published in 
Sept, last; it follows that all that side of 
the concave regions under Europe must 
have had a severe winter in correspon- 
! dence with that of Iceland; and therefore 
more and thicker ice than common must 
have been formed. 
The principal fact on which I founded 
•ny conjecture, (stated in my map) that 
the inner winters are coldest when ours 
are warmest, (at least on any given side 
of a hemisphere) was, in addition to the 
above mentioned fact, certain information 
derived from the settlers on Greenland, 
// 
nn 
