UNEQUAL REFRACTION. 
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racter of an extensive city, crowded with church¬ 
es, castles, and public edifices. The land was 
equally under the influence of this singular mi¬ 
rage. Huge -masses of rocks and summits of 
mountains were reared to an enormous elevation, 
distorted into singular shapes, and often seemed 
to be detached from the rest of the land, and 
freely suspended in the air. 'flic horizon, bound¬ 
ed by ice, which ought to have been pretty regu¬ 
lar and uniform, was sometimes undulated and 
broken. 
Two ships, (the first that had been 'seen for 
many days), came within sight; but they could 
not join company, on account of the close contact 
of the different sheets of ice around us. 
Early in the morning of the 11th of June, du- 
ing a stark calm, the pressure on the floes relax¬ 
ed. As soon as there was room for the ship, we 
began to track towards the north-west; and ha- 
nisms have been introduced, for the purpose of giving as 
many illustrations as possible of these interesting pheno¬ 
mena. All the appearances represented in each figure (with 
one or two exceptions) occurred on the day to which such 
figure is referred, and generally within a few hours, and 
sometimes minutes, of the same period; but they were sel¬ 
dom, if ever, simultaneous : they also occurred while the 
Baffin was pretty nearly in the same situation, but not with¬ 
in the small apparent limits they occupy in the plate. 
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