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Updated: May 14, 2025
The ocean was covered with floating ice-bergs around which swam men of the sea of a wild yet gentle appearance. And Leviathan passed by hurling a column of water up to the clouds.
Well, building a motor sledge and fixing up the Golden Eagle certainly occupies time." "Come on; wash up and then we'll get dinner and start over." "Will Captain Hazzard be there?" "Yes, they are getting the supplies on board now." "Say, that sounds good, doesn't it? Mighty few boys get such a chance. The South Pole, ice-bergs sea-lions, and and oh, heaps of things."
There are precipices of sheer descent down which the cable now hangs. The Azores and Bermudas are peaks of ocean mountains. The warm river known as the Gulf Stream, coming northward meets the ice-bergs and melts them, and deposits the shells, rocks and sand they carry on this plain.
Any one who has ever stood on a lake or river shore, and beheld the undeviating force with which a small cake of ice crumbles and advances before a breeze, or in a current, may form some idea of the majesty of the movement of a field of leagues in diameter, and which was borne upon by a gale of the ocean, as well as by currents, and by the weight of drifting ice-bergs from without.
The window had hardly been open for longer than a second, yet that second had been enough to admit a terrible icy chill into the interior of the Projectile. "Ten thousand ice-bergs!" cried Ardan, shivering all over; "it's cold enough to freeze a white bear!"
The ice, which then rushed down, as it were by agreement, simultaneously and in huge blocks but, now-a-days, at intervals, and broken up by falling over the dams unable to escape in the eager rivalry of the cakes to pass each other, was jammed in the throat, and piled up high in the air, looking like ice-bergs that had floated from the North Pole.
Great ice-bergs rose in wild confusion in the distance, and all along the shore for a few hundred yards were clusters of snow-huts. They looked exactly like bee-hives. I have seen many a strange house, but the strangest of all is certainly a house of snow! To-day I was fortunate enough to see one built. It was done very neatly. The hard snow was cut into slabs with a wooden knife.
Often she had to press close to ice-bergs of great size, and more than once a lump as large as a good-sized house fell off the ice-fields and plunged into the sea close to her side, causing her to rock violently on the waves that were raised by it.
Roswell remonstrated ere the leading vessel entered, and pointed out to Daggett the fact that the bergs were evidently closing, each instant increasing their movement, most probably through the force of attraction. It is known that ships are thus brought in contact in calms, and it is thought a similar influence is exercised on the ice-bergs.
By this time the wind had got round to the southwest, and was blowing quite fresh, bringing him well to windward of the mountain, but causing the ice-bergs to drift in towards the land, and placing an impassable barrier along its western shore.
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