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Wrangell p. 209 – ground ice.  [always] formed main agent in [passing] rivers.

 

p. 257 [-258]  describes enormous piles of ice almost raised into vertical position

"driven against each other with dreadful crush, pressed downwards & reappearing again on the surface, covered with the torn up green mud, which we had so often found on the highest hummocks – nearly 100 miles from land – about 15 fathoms.

Hummocks about 100 feet. – describes broad bows of Hummocks parallel to shore. (grounded?) owes to cracks being this direction – What chance of shells in till ??

 

p. 290. "Sea never free from ice wh. remained immovably fixed along horizon whilst only small pieces drifted about in the open water close to the shore."

Northern winds raise very little sea – believe Hummocks permanently there

 

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p. 397 Inhabitants believe land gaining on sea. [lines?] of drift wood 30 miles inland & decidedly above its level – never now reached.