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on the rocks, and melted down his blubber: he will 
yield readily two barrels of oil. 
“ While we were engaged getting our narwhal on 
board, the wind hauled round to the southwest, and 
the ice began to travel back rapidly to the north. 
This looks as if the resistance to the northward was 
not very permanent: there must be either great areas 
tCE-H ILLS ON THE COAST ABOVE REFUGE HARBOR. 
of relaxed ice or open-water leads along the shore. 
But the choking up of the floes on our eastern side 
still prevents an attempt at progress. This ice is the 
heaviest I have seen; and its accumulation on the 
coast produces barricades, more like bergs than hum¬ 
mocks. One of these rose perpendicularly more than 
sixty feet. Except the ‘ice-hills’ of Admiral Wrangell, 
