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GREENLAND VOYAGE. 
In this investigation, I was much struck with 
the resemblance to works of art, of some of the 
numerous ponderous blocks of ice past which we 
rowed. One mass resembled a colossal human 
figure, reclining in the position of the Theseus 
of the Elgin collection. The profile of the head 
was really striking ; the eye, the forehead, and the 
mouth, surmounted by mustaches, were distinct¬ 
ly marked. Such resemblances in the forms as¬ 
sumed by the drift-ice and hummocks, which oc¬ 
cur in an infinite diversity in the Arctic Seas, 
arb not uncommon. In some instances, possibly, 
the aid of a fertile imagination may be requisite 
to put a shapeless lump of ice into form ; but, in 
others, the resemblances are so striking and cha¬ 
racteristic, that the eye of the most incurious can 
scarcely fail to be impressed by them. In the 
corn-se of my last voyage, I sketched about twenty 
specimens of this kind, the whole of which had 
something interesting or extraordinary in their 
construction. Among these, were two masses, 
presenting most excellent figures of the polar 
bear, one of them raised upon a pedestal of about 
thirty feet in height,—several antique tables,— 
a table sorrounded by a fringe of large stalactites 
of crystalline ice,—resemblances of the heads of 
lions, and other animals,—together with two or 
three busts, and other pieces of very tolerable 
