Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-05-21

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TIRE POLAR ICE.
The Quarterly Review for February,
1918, contsins an interesting article on
the subject Of" The Polar Ice, and
Nnrther Passage into the Pacific" ms
subject is introduced under a notice oil
Lieut.. Chappelps "Narra,ive OF Vo!-
age to Hadson's Bay in his MaJestys
ship Rosamond ;" and the writer has
collected body of important evidence |"
show. that the immense masses oil ice'
which for several centuries past, have
been accommodating on the coast Of oid
Greenland, have, ty some unexplained
cause, been parted from that bleak anu
inho.pitsble shore, and have disappeared.
II is stated that that shore has been, Tor
nearly tour hundred years, shut up, and
rendered inaccessible, BY a vast frozen
Barrier. and that some colonies oi Danes
and INorwegians. who had settled IN
Greenland, had, for taat long period,
been cut of from all communication with
the rest Of the world, and their tate has
been, of course, entirely unknown
The disappearance of the Polar-lce IS
supposed to rest on no ordinary founda.
ton. Its appearance in more southern
latitude, 10 the years lSl5-lSl6-and
1877, has been witnessed by many navi-
gators, on their voyages from the West
Indies and this county, to Europe, as
we'll as IRON Great Britain to Halifax and
Newfoundland. Mu!titades OF immense
islands OF ice have been discovered as lar
as the fortieth parallel OF latitude. Some
Of them were what are called "lce
Bergs." rising to the height OF more
than 100 feet above the water--others
were fiat islands OF great extent. Indeed
in one instance packet from HALIFAX pas
sed, in April, 1918, zeal to mountain
of ice nearly 200 feet in height, abd about
two miles in circumference.
To the effect which these prodigious
bodies Of ice have produced upon the at
mnsphere, is the uncommon ce!dness OF
the few seasons past supposed 6y many
persons to be owing. That the ice had
lief. the Greenland coast was iir,t stated
py some Of the fishermen, on their return
10 August, 1917. THIS was followed by
a newspaper account, that brig from
Bremen, ,!trr m king J n Mayen's land,
sbuu, II leagues n. had ssi'ed to the
westward after seals, AMI found land in
y degrees and thar he tden stind near
Iy dae north along the coast, without see
ing ice, Observing the bays, aud inlets,
and other appearances OF land, til he
came t. La 81 degrees and 50 second.
from whence he steersd to the westSar"
for several days, when. alter losing ''sh'
Of land, he turned his course To the
southwark and eastward, and in IS de-
grecs n. Tell in with the f. st fishing YES
sci be had seen. This statement was
corrob0ra'cd very particularly by The
masters Of five different whaling vessels.
In addition to these accounts, 1t Is sta
ted that the testimony OF MIR Scoresey
the younger, is directly in point. In
letter to Sir Joseph Banks, he says " l
observed in my last voyage (u 1910 a
bout two thousand square leagues $4,000
square miles) of the surface OF the Green
land seas, included between TIE parellels
7s0 aud so, perfectly void Of ice, ali OF
which has disappeared within the last
two years" He further states, that
though on former voyages he had rarely
been able to penetrate the ice, between
the ATTITUDES of re ard 500, so far TO the
west as the meridian of Greenwich, on
his last voyage he twice reached the
longitude OF 10 west, aud IN The par
alleI Of 7O0, he twice approached the coast
Of Old Greenland and there could be no
doubt but be NIGH, have reached the
shore had he had a justifable motive tor
navigating an unknown sea at SO late 8
Season Of The year. Ga returning to me
sou,hward, he actually landed on Jan
Mayen's islaud, and brought away sPe'
cimens OF the rocks.
Intelligence was also received al 20.
peahagaa, from Iceland, in September,
1877, Of the ice having broken loose iron,
the opposite coast Of Greenland, and
fioated to the southwark, after having