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in the Western Arctic Sea. 11 broken pieces so far asunder as to allow a ship to make way among them. Besides these detached masses, we saw also a number of icebergs or icehills afloat. These objects were in* teresting to a stranger like me ; but 1 am advised to reserve my wonder for masses of a very different description, to be encounter ed as we proceed farther to the northward. Wonder is not, as you may imagine, the only feeling excited by the view of an ice berg and of the ice in general. It is impossible to avoid fore boding what must be the situation of a ship encompassed by such tremendous bodies of ice, whether in motion or firmly adhering together. In speaking of the view of Cape Farewell, I should have noticed that our view of that remote head-land was chiefly owing to the peculiar clearness of the atmosphere, which is always produced by its humidity immediately after, and some times immediately before, rain. 1 ought also to have mentioned that, on the 30th and 31 st past, we ran over the spot called in some charts the sunken land of Buss, on which the water is said to be far less deep than is generally found in that part of the Atlantic. With various lengths of line, however, up to lfiOand 170 fathoms, no bottom could be found. Hence the existence of a bank in that position may well be doubted. On Tuesday the first of this month the weather, notwithstand ing the advance of the summer, was colder and more uncomfort able than at any time since we put to sea, from the thick rain and fog ; the latter preparing us for what we must expect as we get on into Davis’s Strait and Baffin’s Bay. You good people of London complain in doleful strain of a fog in the streets : but you have at least the houses on each hand to guide you on your way from Charing Cross to Change Alley. Think, however, what must be our embarrassment in the wide'ocean, incumbered with hills and plains of ice in our course and on every side, with the compass alone to point out our direction, when we cannot see twice the ship’s length before us. During that and the following day several birds, of land as well as sea, were hovering about us. The snow-bunting in particular must have come all the way from the Greenland coast, nearly 400 miles; for the wind came from that quarter. The arctic-gull, so called from its usually resorting to the northern regions, appeared also for the first time. The wind drawing much to the north-west we were obliged to stand to the southward on the first of the month, and continued so to do to the fourth, when the gale, which had for two days been very boisterous, allowed us to steer towards the north-west. On the first we were in latitude by observation at noon 58° 7' : but on the fourth we had been driven southward nearly to 65° that is to the parallel of the north of England. In longitude we had gained only from 33°.31' to 35° 22’ '• and, indeed, it may be said that up