94 LIFE AMONG THE ICEBERGS.

 

to search for Sir John Franklin and his
crew, both from England and this coun- -
try. Those who went from the United
States had a pretty hard time of it
among the icebergs.

Captain Parry found one iceberg, that
reached one hundred and: forty feet
above the surface of the water, and it
was aground in one hundred and twen-
ty fathoms, so that it was more than
eight hundred feet high. It was quite a
mountain, wasn’t it? One of Captain
Parry’s vessels came very near being
nipped, as the sailors call it; that 1s,
the ship got between two floating ice-