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Title: A voyage towards the North Pole : undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773
Year: 1774 (1770s)
Authors: Mulgrave, Constantine John Phipps, Baron, 1744-1792 Phipps, Constantine John, 1744-1792
Subjects: Racehorse (Ship)
Publisher: London : Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols for J. Nourse
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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That represented in the engraving, from a sketch taken by Mr. D'Auvergne upon the spot, was about three hundred feet high, with a cascade of water issuing out of it. The black mountains, white snow, and beautiful colour of the ice, make a very romantic and uncommon picture. Large pieces frequently break off from the Icebergs, and fall with great noise into the water : we observed one piece which had floated out into the bay, and grounded In twenty-four fathom; it was fifty feet high above the surface of the water, and of the fame beautiful colour as the Iceberg. A particular description of all the plants and animals will have a place in the Appendix. I shall here mention such general observations as my short stay enabled me to make. The stone we found was chiefly a kind of marble, which dissolved easily in the marine acid. We perceived no marks of minerals of any kind, nor the least appearance of present, or remains of former Volcanoes. Neither did we meet with infers, or any species of reptiles;
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