24 PART FROM THE SNAP. 



1824. in the direction of a dark water sky ; and, 

 August, with a fresh breeze from the south-west^ and 

 small drift snow, we ran the Griper into the 

 '' pack." 



AFTER PARTING FROM THE SNAP. 



Although the weather continued thick, we 

 obtained a short glimpse of the sun soon after 

 noon, which gave our lat. 61° 13' 0", and long, 

 by dead reckoning, 63° 53' 50". 



The extreme of land bore due west about 

 ten miles, and as I conceived this to have been 

 Cape Chidley, its latitude by the charts must 

 be about twenty- seven miles too much to the 

 northward. The weather, however, was at this 

 time so thick that the base of the land was 

 alone seen, yet its termination in three dis- 

 tinct bluffs and a rocky point was undoubt- 

 edly ascertained. At one P.M. we again saw 

 the extreme bluff bearing w.b.s.Js., at about fif- 

 teen miles distance. 



As the ice, which lay in loose packs, was 

 rather light than otherwise, I kept the ship 

 N.w.b.N., in hopes of passing close to the east- 

 ward of Button's Islands. The wind con- 

 tinued strong all night from . the south-west, 

 with a short heavy sea, in which the ship 



