Note 344 — Chapter II · THE LANDFALL—FISHING FLEET—TO REYKJAVIK.
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In Iceland the reflection of field-ice is brightest, but yellow; new ice is grey, and drift-ice is purest white. The use of “blink” is not happy: Ross employs it in “ice-blink” to denote a cliff or barrier; others talk of land-blink, i.e., the reflection of the sky upon the earth.