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have reached a stony point half a mile distant, 

 against which the ice was thrown up in heaps. 

 The main body was still unbroken, and appa- 

 rently unaltered, except to the eastward, where 

 an E.S. E. wind had opened a partial lane, of 

 which the termination, however, could be easily 

 traced. Our evening was spent in the perform- 

 ance of divine service. 



The night set in with a gale from S.S.E., ac- 

 companied by heavy rain, two powerful auxilia- 

 ries in our cause ; and most agreeable was it to 

 find in the morning that they had done good 

 service, having crushed and heaped a great deal 

 oficeonthe beach. With the continuance of 

 the gale the sea rose, and obliged us to move 

 the boat and baggage farther inland ; but this 

 was done cheerfully, for there was comfort in 

 watching the havoc made by the rolling surf. 

 Already it had reduced a barrier of three hun- 

 dred feet, which effectually blocked up the 

 communication, to a breadth of not more than 

 twenty feet ; and this also was destroyed a 

 little after high water at l h p.m.* My anxiety 

 forbade me to rest, and I went to the most 

 northerly part of the island, about three miles 

 off, where, taking a station on a rock about 

 two hundred and fifty feet high, near some 

 marks of the Esquimaux, I perceived a consider- 



* New moon. 



