Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-03-22

~ can converse now" said he. "Perhaps
after all the danger lies more in the imapina-
ton than in the fact. But it is a hideous
naked scene, and needs no such coloring as the
roaring of wind, the rushing of seas, and the
crashing falls Of masses of ice to render it
frghtful."
"You tell mo-" said I, ''that when you fell
asleep"--I would sometimes express his frozen
state thus-"there was quarter Of mile Of
ice beyond the schooner's stern"
"Atleast quarter of a mile" he answered.
"Day after day it would be built no till il
came to n face of that extent"
| thought to myself if it had taken forty.
eight years of the wear and tear of storm and
surge to extnguish quarter of mile, how
long time must clapsc before this island
splits up3 But then | reflected that, during
the greater part of these years, this seat of
ice had been stuck very low SOUTH where
the cold was so extreme as to make it defy
dissolution: that since then it was come away
from the main and stealing north, so that
what might have taken thirty years to ac-
complish in 20 degs. of south latitude might
be performed in a day on the parallel of 60
degs. in the summer season in these seas.
Tassard continued speaking with the PAN
nikin in his hand, and his eyes shut as if to
- 'no " w ami III
quarter of mile of ice beyond the ship, l
have it very plain in my sight; it was great
middle of hillocks, for the ice pressed thick
and hard, and raised us, and vomited up
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his eyes and gazed at me.
"Well.' said l.
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