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acrofs, and made fail with the wind ftill at Weft South Weft. W9- 



At noon, we were in latitude, by obfervation, 69° 55', longi- v_ — J^_j 

 tude 194 30'. Toward evening, the wind flackened, and at 

 midnight it was a calm. 



On the 18th, at five in the morning, a light breeze fprung Sunday is. 

 up from the Eaft North Eaft, with which we continued our 

 courfe to the North, in order to regain the ice as foon as pof- 

 fible. We paffed fome fmall logs of drift-wood, and faw 

 abundance of fea-parrots, and the fmall ice-birds, and like- 

 wife a number of whales. At noon, the latitude, by ob- 

 fervation, was 70 26', and longitude 194° 54'; the depth of 

 water twenty-three fathoms ; the ice ftretched from North to 

 Eaft North Eaft, and was diftant about three miles. At one 

 in the afternoon, finding that we were clofe in with a firm 

 united field of it, extending from Weft North Weft to Eaft, 

 we tacked, and, the wind coming round to the We ft ward, 

 flood on to the Eaftward, along its edge, till eleven at night. 

 At that time a very thick fog coming on, and the water 

 fhoaling to nineteen fathoms, we hauled our wind to the 

 South. The variation obferved this day was 31° 20' Eaft. Ic 

 is remarkable, that though we faw no fea-horfes on the 

 body of the ice, yet they were in herds, and in greater 

 numbers on the detached fragments, than we had ever 

 obferved before. About nine in the evening, a white 

 bear was fcen fwimming clofe by the Difcovery ; it after- 

 ward made to the ice, on which were alfo two others. 



On the 19th, at one in the morning, the weather clearing Monday 19. 

 up, we again fleered to the North Eaft, till two, when we 

 were a fecond time fo completely embayed, that there was 

 no opening left, but to the South ; to which quarter we ac- 

 cordingly directed our courfe, returning through a re mark- 

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