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The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
, buildings, castles, cattle-deals and a thousand vagaries of form. When off Omenak Fiord, at 7 P. M., eighty-nine icebergs were counted across the mouth of that sound, and there were over 140 in sight to the westward. These came from a mer de glace in the interior, though some of the young gentlemen averred that there was a steam factory constantly engaged in their manufacture, which statement was favored by the fact that on the borders of the "fiord" was a large coal mine. On Saturday, August 4, the sun did not set upon the expedition. This was the first night in which they had entire sunlight. The sky being cloudless, the sun was seen the entire night, first to pass slowly in a circle to the northward, and then eastward, till it began to rise again. The expedition was becalmed several days off "Svorte Hook," but at length reached a point within sight of the low islands beneath Sanderson's Hope, a great landmark for Arctic navigators. At this time a scene of sublimity