power of this mist
to multiply distance was not the least part of its witchery. A schooner
ten rods off looked as far away as Cadmus and Abraham.

P---- was made happy by finding here a grasshopper, which subsequently
proved, however, a prize indeed,--but not quite so much of a prize as he
hoped, being probably the young of a species previously known as Alpine,
rather than an adult identical with one found on the summit of Mount
Washington.

During the latter part of our duress here we were driven below by raw,
incessant rain, and the confinement became irksome. At length, during
the day and night of July 14th, the ice finally made off with itself,
and the next morning the schooner followed suit. The ice, however, had
not done with us. It lingered near the land, while farther out it was
seen in solid mass, making witch-work, as usual, on the northern and
eastern sky; and we were soon dodging through the more open portion,
still dense enough, close to the coast. It was dangerous business. A
pretty breeze blew; and with anything of a wind our antelope of a
schooner took to her heels with speed. Lightly built,--not, like vessels
designed for this coast, double-planked and perhaps iron-prowed,--she
would easily have been staved by a shock upon this adamantine ice. The
mate stood at the bow, shouting, "Luff! Bear away! Hard up! Hard down!"
And his voice wanting strength and his articulation distinctness, I was
fain, at the pinch of the game, to come to his aid, and trumpet his
orders after him with my best stentorship. The old pilot had taken the
helm; but his nerves were unequal to his work; and a younger man was
sent to take his place. Once or twice the ship struck smaller masses of
ice, but at so sharp an angle as to push them and herself mutually
aside, and slide past without a crash. But a wind from the land was
steadily urging the floe-field away, and at length the sea before us lay
clear.

At ten A. M., we drew up to a majestic berg, and "came to,"--that is,
brought the schooner close by the wind. The berg was one of the noblest.
Picture to yourself two most immense Gothic churches without transepts,
each with a tower in front. Place these side by side, but at a remove
equal to about half their length. Build up now the space between the two
towers, extending this connection back so that it shall embrace the
front third or half of the churches, leaving an open _green_ court in
the rear, and you have a general concep