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[Being an extract from the singular journal of JOHN / M'ALISTER RAY, student of medicine.]
September 11th. -- Lat. 81 degrees 40' N.; long. 2 degrees E. Still / lying-to amid enormous ice fields. The one which stretches away to the / north of us, and to which our ice-anchor is attached, cannot be smaller / than an English county. To the right and left unbroken sheets extend / to the horizon. This morning the mate reported that there were signs of / pack ice to the southward. Should this form of sufficient thickness / to bar our return, we shall be in a position of danger, as the food, I / hear, is already running somewhat short. It is late in the season, and / the nights are beginning to reappear.