Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal / Or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51

by Sherard Osborn

Footnotes

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[ ¹] Is the term applied to half-thawed ice or snow.

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[ ² ] First winter ice, or young ice, is called bay-ice, from an old Yorkshire word bay, to bend.—Author.

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[ ³ ] Hangman's Cove, a small harbour on the west side of Davis's Straits.

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[ ⁴ ] Had we but happily known at that time of the perfect description of the Wellington Channel ice subsequent to our passage across in 1850, as shown by the tract of the American Expedition and Lieutenant De Haven's admirable report, we should not then have fallen into the error of believing barriers of ice to be permanent in deep-water channels, a fallacy which it is to be hoped has exploded with many other misconceptions as to the fixed nature of ice, and the constant accumulation of it in Polar regions.

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