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5th, Strong gales. Unhung the rudder. 
6th, The ship towed through very 
rank ice, by four boats manned by half 
the crew. Ten sail in company. 
7th, Made fast to an Iceberg about 
seventy yards long and forty broad, and 
about twenty feet above the surface of 
the water. It was very much furrowed, 
and, from its great depth, drifted but 
little, while the lesser fragments of ice 
were driven past it at about two knots 
an hour. 
I had this day a complete proof of the 
fallacy of the opinion, which maintained, 
that salt water did not freeze. All 
around the ship, ice was formed on the 
surface of the water ; I observed the spi~ 
cute darting with considerable velocity, 
and in an immense variety of forms. This 
ice, when newly formed, is of a bay co¬ 
lour, and when it has attained the thick¬ 
ness of window-glass, is called by the 
sailors, bay ice . It is rough on the sur- 
