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were very large and numerous, and much snow 

 fell, with the thermometer at 30° to 3<f. On the 

 10th it fell calm, the thermometer rose to 38° and 

 39°, and several fishing ships were in sight about 

 latitude 71° 16'. The weather was now very fine, 

 and the thermometer at 40° to 43°, and twenty 

 sail of fishing vessels plying about ; but a chain 

 of large islands stretched across from the shore 

 to the western ice, not more than a quarter of a 

 mile asunder. The fine moderate weather, with 

 the thermometer frequently up to 44° and 45°, 

 and once to 49^ continued till the end of June, 

 at which time we find the Lion as far to the 

 southward as 63° 30', and on the 4th July fairly 

 out of the strait and to the westward of Cape 

 Farewell, without any reason whatever being 

 assigned for not proceeding to the northward, 

 excepting the multitude of ice-islands which are 

 repeatedly mentioned in the remarks of each day. 

 Indeed the whole journal is as meagre as if it had 

 been the record of the most ordinary voyage. 

 On the 26th August he arrived at the Nore.* By 

 his instructions, he was directed to make the best 

 of his way into Baffin's Bay, and use his best en- 

 deavours to explore the western shores thereof, to 

 examine if there be any considerable rivers or 

 inlets affording the probability of a passage into 

 the Pacific, and, if so, to attempt such a passage : t 



* Lieutenant Young's M.S. Journal, 

 t M.S. Instructions. 



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