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nearly everything ^[[insertion]] partook [[/insertion]]   [[strikethrough]] partakes or [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] a colum^[n]ar appearance. ^[[insertion]] there was a continual or [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] A [[/strikethrough]] struggle horizontal & oblique ^[[insertion]] line [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] figures[[/strikethrough]] for the perpendicular caste.
[[underlined]] The Wall of Water [[/underlined]] was columnar, though [[strikethrough]] contin [[/strikethrough]] constantly changing. How beautiful the sight of that living-Wall! A thousand youth afar ^[[insertion]] off [[/insertion]] dancing to & fro - entwining their ^[[insertion]] white [[/insertion]] arms - changing - inter-mixing - falling, rising - jumping, skipping hopping ^[[insertion]] whistling waltzing [[/insertion]] walking would as well typify this appearance [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] as any figures I could get.
One cannot view these scenes & not exclaim!
"O Lord how manifold are thy works! in Wisdom hast thou made them all - the earth is full of thy riches."

Nothing of [[strikethrough]] great[[/strikethrough]] ^[[insertion]] considerable [[/insertion]] moment occured till this afternoon about 4 o'clock when it began to "fog up" ^[[insertion]] Before this was drawing up anchor chain expecting to make harbour to-night [[/insertion]] By 7 o'clk it was very thick - ^[[insertion]] [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[?]] [[/insertion]] (at 6 3/4 the air was as clear as a bell") - 1/4 to 8 Smith came down into the cabin ^[[insertion]] announcing to the capt. that [[/insertion]] all was clear  
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again as the weather bearer.  Tacked ship & stood in for the land. 8 o'clock tacked ship & stood out from the land with as thick fog as ever experienced on Newfoundland Bank.  Really it rained fog ! The sails dripping profusely covering the deck as if a shower prevailed. The wind at 12 (Noon) had changed from S.W. to N.N.E. Barometer stood in 29.35in Therm. 40 - Sea 40 
Evening Barometer 29.30 - Air 38° Sea 38°. 
At 8 ^[[insertion]] P.M. we had arrived at ^[[insertion]] nearly [[/insertion]] the same point reached by us on the 4th - Northforeland bearing W.S.W. by compass ^[[insertion]](distant 30 miles) [[/insertion]] when we [[strikethrough]]tack [[/strikethrough]] stood out from the land. The ship is now heading S.E. by compass going under shortened sail. To-morrow will make 2 weeks since leaving Holsteinborg ! Not ice alone is the great obstacle of