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NORTHWARD1 AGAIN.—THE STEAMER.—TAKING TO THE BOAT.
yes, Regnar, we are now on the outer side of the pack, and the wind has shifted to the southward again. Look to the eastward2, Regnie. Has not the pack broken up there?"
"Yes, the tide sets to the eastward, and the wind blows the heavy ice northward as soon as it clears the eastern shoals. See that berg going to pieces on Doyle's Reef!"
As he spoke3, the berg, a small one, worn by sun and rain into a multitude of fantastic pinnacles5, swung off from its easterly drift, and, wafted6 by the wind, rapidly floated towards the concealed7 reef, whose sharp and hidden rocks can only be suspected during the prevalence of the heaviest storms. With a moderate rate of speed, not much exceeding two knots an hour, the massive base of the ice-island suddenly rose, as the shelving rocks received the irresistible8 impact. Then a few glittering pieces dimpled the[Pg 288] surface of the unruffled water. It was the signal of impending9 dissolution. Crash upon crash, like the roar of artillery10, echoed and re-echoed among the floes, and rent from base to pinnacle4, the majestic12 frost-castle fell into utter ruin, torturing the sea into foam13, while the billows raised by the rocking of the huge fragments swept up the narrow walls,
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