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at all that season, or at least till very late. Mr. 

 Lowenorn, however, resolved to set sail once 

 more, to be convinced of the impractibility of 

 penetrating through the ice. He departed on the 

 23d July, and on the 24th, in latitude 66° 35', 

 longitude 29° KV, fell in with great masses of ice. 

 They persevered in coasting along these ice-bergs, 

 which, in latitude 65° 10', longitude 29°, appeared 

 to turn towards the S.W. and to form a great bay; 

 but that they might not be closed in by the ice, 

 they stood to the southward, and then returned 

 to latitude 65° 41', to the place nearly where they 

 were on the 8th. They now once more tried 

 to proceed westerly, but were stopped by great 

 masses of ice ; and as for several days they saw 

 nothing but masses of ice on all sides, they re- 

 solved to return to Iceland, where they arrived, at 

 Havnefiord, on the 31st July. They now began 

 to refit the small vessel under the command of 

 Lieutenant Egede, which was to remain during 

 the winter in Iceland, in order that she might 

 resume the voyage of discovery in the following 

 spring, and Mr. Lowxnorn returned to Denmark 

 with his ship. 



Mr. Lowenorn is of opinion, that the eastern 

 coast of Greenland may be approached, which 

 however he thinks is by no means the part an- 

 ciently inhabited and called East Greenland, and 

 which has been lost for four centuries. He imagines 

 that he can satisfactorily account for the vast masses 



