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Any concerns such as these should be addressed before construction begins . From his own account of himself , and from many circumstances which were known in connection with his story , he must have been the son of a man of wealth . Assist in guiding the students through a critique of the posters . Our crew was somewhat diminished ; for a man and a boy had gone in the Pilgrim ; another was second mate of the Ayacucho ; and a third , the oldest man of the crew , had broken down under the hard work and constant exposure on the coast , and , having had a stroke of the palsy , was left behind at the hide-house under the charge of Captain Arthur . If it would clear off enough to give a chance for an observation , or if we could make land , we should know where we were ; and upon these , and the chances of falling in with a sail from the eastward , we depended almost entirely . We soon , however , left these astern , having passed within about two miles of them ; and at sundown the horizon was clear in all directions . Its great size ; - for it must have been from two to three miles in circumference , and several hundred feet in height ; - its slow motion , as ts base rose and sank in the water , and its high points nodded against the clouds ; the dashing of the waves upon it , which , breaking high with foam , lined its base with a white crust ; and the thundering sound of the cracking of the mass , and the breaking and tumbling down of huge pieces ; together with its nearness and approach , which added a slight element of fear , - all combined to give to it the character of true sublimity . It was a contrast to much that we had lately seen , and a spectacle not only of beauty , but of life ; for it required but little fancy to imagine these islands to be animate masses which had broken loose from the " thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice , " and were working their way , by wind and current , some alone , and some in fleets , to milder climes . After this , they had to pull thirty miles , and when they got on board , were so stiff that they could not come up the gangway ladder . The soil in a raised bed will stain the concrete if it is left in one place for more than one season . Our chief reliance , the prevailing westerly gales , was thus cut off ; and here we were , nearly seven hundred miles to the westward of the Cape , with a gale dead from the eastward , and the weather so thick that we could not see the ice with which we were surrounded , until it was directly under our bows . No sooner had we come-to , than a strong south-easter , which had been threatening us all day , set in , with heavy rain and a chilly atmosphere . These scenes , with occasional dead calms , lasting for hours , and sometimes for days , are fair specimens of the Atlantic tropics .