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"250 TRAVELS
is generally of but a brittle texture, breaks it, and fuddenly falls
into the water, which bubbles up all about the fledge, nor does it
ftop till it gets to the fecond layer of ice. This unexpected fall
produces a horrible fenfation; and though there are rarely more
than two feet of diftance from one ftratum of ice to the other, yet
the fight of the water, the plunging of the horfe, &c. are exceed-
ingly alarming.
In our travels on the ice we fell in with fifhermen who ufe the
hook and bait: they fometimes ftopped, and amufed us by fhew-
ing us the fifh they had caught. ‘heir figure was a great curio-
fity to us: they fcour over the ice in long wooden pattens, and
fhove themfelves along with a pole they holdin their hand. The
velocity of their progrefs is almoft incredible; and the wonderful
celerity of motion in their bodies, without the fmalleft preceptible
action in their legs (for they ufe only their arms), forms a very
ftriking fight to a perfon beholding them for the firft time. When
employed in fifhing, they exhibit a very curious picture, on account
of the contraft which is obfervable in all thofe objects. ‘They
carry along with them a {mall triangular fail, which, when they
have occafion to remain long feated on the ice, they fpread, in
order to fhelter them from the wind. Having perforated the ice
with a kind of chifel, which makes a part of their apparatus, they
plunge the hook into the fea to the depth of about thirty feet:
if the cold happens to be fomewhat fevere, they are obliged to be
continually ftirring the water at the orifice of the hole to prevent
its freezing. We witneffed feveral lucky dips of the fifhermen’s
hooks,
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