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This party approached Littleton Island, which had 

 been visited by Captain Inglefield. They here ob- 

 tained a vast quantity of eider-ducks. They then 

 passed Flagstaff Point and Combermere Cape. Then 

 came Cape Isabella and Cape Frederick VII. On 

 the 23d of July they reached Hakluyt Island ; and 

 thence they steered for the Gary Islands. But on the 

 31st of July, when they had reached a point but ten 

 miles distant from Cape Parry, their further progress 

 was absolutely stopped. A solid mass of ice lay 

 before them on the sea, extending as far as the eye 

 could reach. This barrier was composed of the vast 

 seas of ice which had drifted through Jones' Sound 

 on the west and those of Murchison's on the east. 

 The adventurers were now compelled to retrace their 

 way. About the 1st of August they regained the 

 brig, without having met with any accident, but also 

 without having succeeded in attaining the object of 

 their excursion. They found the "Advance" just 

 as tightly wedged into the ice as she had been during 

 the preceding eleven months, with no hope of getting 

 her speedily released.* 



* See the "Arctic Explorations and Discoveries in the .Nineteenth 

 Century," by Samuel M. Smucker, published by Miller, Orton Co., 

 New York, 1856, page 486. 



