The text structure used to organize this excerpt is **Description**.
The passage focuses on detailing the visual and physical characteristics of the ice at Swamp Bridge. The author provides vivid descriptions of the appearance, the depth of the crystallizations, and the overall structure of the ice without comparing it to anything else, presenting a problem, or listing events in a sequence.
I observed this morning that the ice at Swamp Bridge was checkered with a kind of mosaic-work of white creases or channels; and when I examined the underside, I found it to be covered with a mass of crystallizations from three to five inches deep, standing, or rather depending, at right angles to the true ice, which was about an eighth of an inch thick. There was a yet older ice six or eight inches below this. When the ice was laid upon its smooth side, they resembled the roofs and steeples of a Gothic city, or the vessels of a crowded haven under a press of canvas.
Which text structure is used to organize this excerpt?
Compare and contrast
Description
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