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ISLAND OF ICE
ISLAND OF ICE, a name given by sailors to a great quantity of ice collected into one huge solid mass, and floating about upon the seas near or within the arctic circle.Many of these fluctuating islands are met with on the coasts of Spitzbergen, to the great danger of the shipping employed in the Greenland fishery.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 163, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0736.html