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Niagara, roared across the sathing waters almost as tangible as
they. And as in the plunging flood of Niagara, there are coult
less tiny sagittate spurts or jets of greater velocity than the
rest, so in this aerial torrent there were jets which cut the
water as a gravers tol cuts metal, and drove the liquid shavings
in
sagittate line. The returning daylight enabled us to see
and meet the waves better, but it added ten fold to the savage-
ness of the scene.
Nowhere will such a mad sea be raised in
such an incredibly short time, as when the autumn boreal winds
marshalling in Baffins Bay charge southward, and crowding through
the narrow Davis Strait, hurl every intruder out of the realm of
night, foundering many a magestic berg and driving others foam-
ing like battle ships through the water .
It is the mighty besom @ Kokoyah, the demon of the north
sweeping his domain clear, and closing his realms for the winter
And no where fortunately does the sea subside more quickly
after the wind goes down.
Subsiding almost as rapidly as it had arisen the storm
at noon was greatly moderated, and by evening the sea was an
animated plane of hammered silver touched here and there with
the frosting of the white caps; a few stray ice bergs glistened
inkvarious directions like mammoth pearls; the sun was shining
brilliantly and the Hope with lee scuppers to the water, and
the apankerm jib, and double reefed topsails, the leaches of
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