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These four instances lie gives are generally known, 

 and admitted to be as he says. First, — In the 

 Northern Sea, from lat. 60° to 80°, bounded on 

 the east by Lapland and Spitzbergen, and on the 

 west by Greenland, the whole of the latter coast is 

 blocked up by ice throughout the summer, so as to 

 make it at least a matter of no easy enterprise to 

 approach it, while the navigation of the eastern 

 portion of that sea is annually and without difficulty 

 performed by whalers and others. 



The second instance is equally well known in the 

 navigation of Davis's Strait, which from about 

 Resolution Island in 61^°, to the parallel of 70°, is 

 inaccessible as late as the month of August, while 

 the sea is open on the eastern side of the strait (the 

 western coast of Greenland) many weeks before 

 that time. 



The third he mentions is his own case, when coast- 

 ing the eastern shore of Melville Peninsula, on his 

 first voyage, so loaded with ice as to make the navi- 

 gation difficult and dangerous. 



The fourth instance mentioned by Parry is the 

 eastern side of Fox's Channel, where, from that 

 navigator's account in 1631, and that of Baffin in 

 1615, "as from our own observation," there is little 

 or no ice during the summer season ; but he might 

 also have added that the eastern coast of South- 

 ampton Island appears to be always choked with 

 ice. 



