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out or to await a wind from the right direction.
We are on the alert for a sight of "Sterry's tower" - a mountain of considerable note among the Arctic Whalers. If a fair opportunity occurs, I shall take a sketch of it for the purpose of affording others ^ [[insertion]][[strikethrough]] also [[/strikethrough]] beside myself [[/insertion]] pleasure in a sight of it.
To-night I tried to get the ^ [[insertion]] magnetic [[/insertion]] bearings of Sanderson's Towers & "Cape Mercy" both in plain sight. Of 4 Binnacle Compasses & 4 Common, I could get no two to agree!
May it not be at the hour I was [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] among these usually reliable guides we were near some iron mountain? - Perhaps passing over mines of iron ^[[insertion]] down [[/insertion]] in the Sea.
Dr. Locke of Cincinnati, now deceased, found a place  ^ [[insertion]] when [[/insertion]] on Lake Superior where ^[[insertion]] the [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] Needle refused ^[[insertion]] to point [[/insertion]] it usual course. He concluded that masses of Iron were about - in the bosum of the Earth - that caused the phenomenon.
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Strange sights to-night! - Strange to me, though anticipated!
When the Sun was within about three Degrees of the horizon, looking ^[[insertion]] through my Marine Glass [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] over [[/strikethough]]  to the N.E., I was astonished at the view before me! Mountains - Ice-bergs - Islands ^ [[insertion]] & the sea [[/insertion]] were in one vast Confusion. From the Sun northlernly to the S.E., wherever I turned my Glass Confusion worse than [[strikethough]] a things [[/strikethrough]] confounded  met my sight. A little reflection, however, brought me to [[strikethrough]] my [[/strikethrough]] the realization of the fact: [[strikethrough]] A phenomenon [[/strikethrough]] The extraordinary appearance of every thing at & beyond the horizon was from "Refraction" (?)[[underlined]] so called. [[/underlined]] We speak of this & that [[/strikethrough]][[underlined]] "looming up" [[/underlined]]at Home! Little did I even think what that really signified till to-night. Mountains far distant - mountains [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] whose true position was considerable below the horizon - were now far above it! And Ice-bergs dangling from their tops! [[strikethrough]] Hence [[/strikethrough]] ^[[insertion]] This [[/insertion]] "Refraction"! [[underlined]] It was Nature turned inside out! Nature turned "Top-sy-turvy"!! [[/underlined]] [[double underlined]] Nature on a Spree [[/double underlined]] !!! 

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parts of the page is on page 83 of "Life with the Esquimaux" Note: heavy cross stroke on 't' not a strikethrough.