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any person to identify the hills with those which 

 exist near the anchorage. 



Captain Sabine, who visited this place in 1824 

 for the purpose of determining the length of 

 the seconds 1 pendulum, observes, in his paper 

 read before the Royal Society, that, "After 

 having been nearly three months on the spot, 

 I am even more perplexed than on the day 

 of my arrival to assign in the plan the island 

 which is intended to represent the one upon 

 which Phipps' observatory w T as placed, or the 

 position of the hill in question." 



The latitude of the small island upon which 

 Phipps landed and fixed his observatory is 

 stated to be 79° 50' N., and the longitude 10° 

 2' 30" E. ; the variation on shore was 20° 38' W., 

 and the dip of the needle 82° 7'. The tide 

 rose about four feet, and the flood came from 

 the southward. 



On the 18th Captain Phipps embarked the 

 instruments, and put to sea to try if there was 

 yet any possibility of penetrating the ice, and 

 the following day was stopped off Red Bay, 

 nearly in the same situation in which his pro- 

 gress had been arrested twice before. There 

 was no opening to be seen in the ice in a north- 

 erly or easterly direction, and not the smallest 

 prospect of being able to proceed further. The 



A. 1). 



1773. 



