"About two hours after this occurrence we heard the ground sea; and before night the ice broke, and freed our ship." (8)
Ground sea is a swell of the ocean occurring during calm weather and without obvious cause, breaking on the shore in heavy roaring billows. This ground sea comes by chance and brakes the ice that surrounded Robert Walton's ship. His whole expedition is a risk and filled with events that happen by chance.
~"Ground Sea" Websters Online Dictionary. August 26, 2008. <http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/Gr/Ground_sea.html>
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