PROGRESS OUT OF THE ICE. 
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CHAPTER XIII 
GET CLEAR OF THE ICE.-REMARKABLE COLOUR OF 
THE SEA.-EXAMINATION OF THE CAUSE.-INNUMER¬ 
ABLE ANIMALCULES.-STORMY WEATHER.-FAROE 
ISLANDS.-OBSERVATIONS ON THE CAUSE OF THE 
SUSPENSION OF CLOUDS.—APPEARANCE OF FAROE.— 
MAKE THE LEWISES.-TREMENDOUS GALE.-A PRIN¬ 
CIPAL OFFICER WASHED OVERBOARD.-DANGEROUS 
SITUATION OF THE SHIP.-REMARKS ON LIGHTS.— 
DIFFICULTIES OF THE NAVIGATION OF THE NORTH 
CHANNEL.-ARRIVAL AT LIVERPOOL. 
Tuesday, 27 th August.— A. thick fog heaving 
set in, in the night, we lost sight of the coast of 
Greenland, and never saw it afterwards. We 
pursued our reach all the day to the eastward, 
with an occasional tack, among fields, floes, and 
drift-ice. As we had a smart breeze, we made ra¬ 
pid progress, though a good deal bewildered with 
the thick fog that generally prevailed. About 
mid-day we fell in with a compact chain of floes, 
lying directly across our course, wherein, for some 
time, no passage whatever could be discovered. 
Fortunately the fog dispersed at a convenient 
moment, and the atmosphere exhibited fine blinks 
