Monday, January 14, 2013

Blockaded by Ice

ST. JOHNS, N. F., March 31. – This harbor is completely blocked with ice.  No mails have been received here or departed hence for the last six weeks.

A large steamer passed here this morning forcing he way through a dense pack of ice.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 5, 1862, p. 4

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