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■setting, respecting the distance of objects. See¬ 
ing a piece of ice at the apparent distance of two 
or three miles, on which there was a great load 
of rocks, I sent a boat for the purpose of getting 
specimens from it. To the surprise of the people 
in the boat, as well as myself, they rowed hard for 
two or three hours before they reached it, when 
the mass of ice that had appeared to be only a few 
feet in height, under the erroneous idea we had 
formed of its distance, proved to be higher than 
a ship’s mast-head. 
From hence the coast, to an extent of 110 
miles, was in sight; which, indeed, was seen the 
whole of the day. Iloscoe Mountains were dis¬ 
tinctly visible, even out of the cabin-windows, in 
an ordinary state of the atmosphere, when at the 
distance, by observation, of sixty-five miles. To 
the southward of Cape Brewster, the coast, as 
far as we could perceive it, trends nearly south¬ 
west, true. To an extent of forty miles, during 
this day’s sailing, I obtained a survey of the land 
from intersecting bearings, with a similar extent 
from a single set of bearings and estimated dis¬ 
tances. The whole addition to my survey, there¬ 
fore, amounted to about eighty miles of coast; 
one-half of which may be considered as very well 
laid down. At the distance of six or eight leagues 
from Cape Brewster, there are two glaciers, pr 
