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Title: Narrative of a voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875-6 in H.M. ships 'Alert' and 'Discovery'
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Nares, George S. (George Strong), 1831-1915 Feilden, H. W. (Henry Wemyss), 1838-1921
Subjects: Alert (Ship) Discovery (Ship : Launched 1789) Natural history -- Arctic regions Arctic regions
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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hat at a depth ofseventy fathoms 1-02547. Coincident with the increase of warmth in thebottom water, and the change in colour due to dia-tomaceae, walrus, large seal and little auks were seenfor the first time on our way south. A dredge whichcame up much torn showed that the bottom wasextremely rich in Echinoderms. In endeavouring to obtain some water from adepth of a hundred fathoms the brass water-bottlewas accidentally sent down with both valves closed. Asthe air could not escape, on recovery, the bottle wasfound to have been completely flattened by the pressureof the water. A common black bottle carefully stoppered with achampagne cork withstood the pressure of one hundred-weight to the square inch at a depth of fifty fathoms.At a depth of eighty-five fathoms, with a pressure ofnearly two hundred pounds to the square inch, thewater oozed through the cork until the bottle washalf-full of water, without apparently affecting thecork. During the ebb-tide in the afternoon, although the
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ieiii i ■■nmrn 187G CAPE FRA2ER. 153 ice near the shore drifted towards the south, thefloe to which we were secured moved with the pack towards the north, and not wishing to be carried pastMaury Bay I cast off and again anchored inshore at9 r.M. Captain Feilclen, Mr. Hart, and I then landed, andwalked to the raised beach at the extreme of CapeFrazer. It is situated 250 feet above the present sea-level, and being the only one in the neighbourhoodrenders the Cape conspicuous. After erecting a cairn and depositing a record ofour proceedings we returned to the ship with a richbut extremely heavy burden of limestone fossils. Cape Frazer being subject to great pressure fromthe pack in Kanes Sea, the ice-foot is of much thesame character as the ice-wall in the Polar Sea, but thedepth of water alongside it at low-water is only a fewfeet; the accompanying illustration from an excellentphotograph obtained by Mr. Mitchell when the waterhad yet to rise two feet, shows the cliffy nature of the

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