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Light enough to see the horizon and in the distance (some 30 or 40 miles away) loomed one end of St. Lawrences Is. Surrounding us on every hand [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] were large fragments of ice which were drifting rapidly southward. The washing of the waves on the ice made a constant [[strikethrough]] roar [[/strikethrough]] sullen roar which, combined with the lowering sky when heavy masses of cumulus and cumulo-stratus [[strikethrough]] gave warning of a [[/strikethrough]] were drifting up from the horizon and gave warning of approaching rain; and the peculiar light of an [[strikethrough]] polar [[/strikethrough]] arctic summer night gave the scene a strikingly sinister aspect. Soon the horizon to the N-E lighted up and changed from gray to purple then a flush of crimson toutched the edges of the clouds and changed the water from a muddy green to molten copper, and as the sun approached the horizon the colors changed and shifted until the whole sky in the N.E. was one beautiful mass of colors in the form of an aurora in which the outer portion was faint crimson which became intensified toward the center while outlying masses of clouds took on changing shades of gold, which changed to yellow and then to copper and back to gray as the sun came above the waves and changed them from copper to gold. The scene was rendered still more impressive by the masses of ice which showed shades of green and blue their tops & borders silvered as they were toutched by the rays of the sun - while their fantastic shapes  took new form under the influence of the golden alchemist which seemed to delight in dispensing beautiful colors with a lavish hand. The sun soon entered the clouds and a twilight took the place of the usual light of day until about [[overwritten]]6[[/overwritten]]7 a.m. when the light became clear. About sunrise 1:30 a.m. there were a great many crusted Auks (Phaleris cristatella) in the water among the ice.

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[[overwritten]]6[[/overwritten]]7 a.m. could be the other way around, hard to tell.