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anxiety to the severe complainings of our excel- 

 lent ship. On examination, the proper officer 

 found that she had been lifted up forward three 

 and a half feet, and one and a half abaft. No 

 injury, beyond an indentation from the pressure, 

 could be detected outside, and with the excep- 

 tion of two or three trifling leakages in the 

 upper deck, there had been no mischief below. 

 During the remainder of the day nothing mate- 

 rial occurred. The ship was set backwards and 

 forwards with the tide along the mural edge 

 of the in-shore ice, still advancing towards the 

 S.E., but more slowly to-day in consequence of 

 the course of the wind along the elbow of the wall. 

 About 9 h 30 m p. m. there was an easing of the 

 ice from the sides, and a free space created of 

 three feet on one, and nearly two on the other 

 side, whereby the ship was allowed to slide a little 

 astern and come more upright. 



We were favoured with a tranquil night, and 

 on March 11th, after a slight commotion, the 

 whole body set fast to the S. E. At ll h 40 m a. m. 

 this ceased, and at noon again set N. W. By the 

 bearing of the land we had gone a little to the 

 eastward. Though there was not much change 

 in the ice inside of us, that to seaward certainly 

 looked less high than formerly, while the reaction 

 which had made the whole body thereabouts ease 

 out, indicated open water to the north. Indeed 



