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Title: The Arctic regions: being an account of the American expedition in search of Sir John Franklin
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Simmonds, P. L. (Peter Lund), 1814-1897
Subjects: Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847 Grinnell Expedition 1850-1851)
Publisher: Auburn and Buffalo, Miller, Orton & Mulligan
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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out upon another cruise. They continued in com-pany until the 3d of August, when the Albert departedfor the westward, determined to try the more southem passage. Here again our expedition encounteredvast fields of hummock-ice, and were subjected to themost imminent perils. The floating ice„as if moved byadverse currents, tumbled in huge masses, and rearedupon the sides of the sturdy little vessels like monstersof the deep intent upon destruction. These massesbroke in the bulwarks, and sometimes fell over uponthe decks with terrible force, like rocks rolled over aplain by mountain torrents. The noise was fearful; sodeafening that the mariners could scarcely hear eachothers voices. The sounds of»these rolling masses, to-gether with the rending of the icebergs floating near,and the vast floes, produced a din like the discharge ofa thousand pieces of ordnance upon a field of battle.Finding the north and west closed against furtherprogress, by impenetral))(^ ice. the brave T)e Haven was
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n THE AlilEEICAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 379 balked, and turning liis vessels homeward, they cameout into an open sea, somewhat crippled, but not aplank seriously started. During a storm off the banksof l^ewfoundland, a thousand miles from New York,the vessels parted company. The Advance arrivedsafely at the Eavy Yard at Brooklyn on the 80th ofSeptember, and the Eescue joined her there a few daysafterward. Toward the close of October, the govern-ment resigned the vessels into the hands of Mr. Grin-nell, to be used in other service, but with the stipulationthat they are to be subject to the order of the Secretaryof the Eavy in the spring, if required for anotherexpedition in search of Sir John Franklin. We have thus given a very brief account of the prin-cipal events of interest connected with the AmericanArctic Expedition ; the officers of which will doubtlesspublish a more detailed narrative. Aside from the suc-cess which attended our little vessels in encountering theperils of the polar

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