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30 THIRD BOOK OF LESSON X.
ICE-ISLANDS AND ICEBERGS OF SPITZBERGEN.
TREMEN'Dous, a., terrible. L. tremendus, to be startled at, dread l, om tr o, I shake.
NAv'rnATORS, n., mariners. ·L. nautw, om na is, L., om naus, G., a ship.1
CoNGEAL ED, pt., ozen. L. con,qelatus, om gelu, frost.
OPAQUE (o-pake'), a., not admitting any light to pass through. F.
opaque, om opacus, L., dark, shady.
APPROXIMA1TION, n., the act of approaching. F. roximation, om
proximus, L., nearest.
PHENOM1ENON, n., an appearance. G. phainomenon, om plia·ino, I
AG1GREGATE, n., a collection of things brought together in one. F. agregat, om grex, gregis, L., a ock. (Ad, p. 40l).
appear, I show.
CoLLIS1ION, n., the striking of two bodies together. F. collision, om lw , L., I i ure, I hurt.
LAT1ITUirn, n., a particular degree reckoned om the equator. F. latitude, om Latu., L., broad.
lNACCESS1IBLE, a., not to be arrived at. F. and S. inaccessible, om cedo, 1 L., I yield place or passage ; I go.
PRECIP ITATE, v., to fall violently. L. pr cipito, I ll headlong, om caput, the head.
1. THE name of ice-islands is given by sailors to a great quantity of ice collected• into one huge mass, and oating upon the seas near or within the polar circles. Many of these are to be met with on the coast of Spitzbergen, to the great danger of the ship­ ping employed in the Greenland shery. In the midst of these tremendous masses, navigators have been arrested in their career and ozen to death. The rms assumed by the ice in this chilling climate are pleasing to the most incurious eye.
2. The sur ce of that which is congealed om the sea-water, is at, even, hard, and opaque, resembling white sugar, and incapable of being s1idden on. The
greater pieces, or elds, are many leagues in length;