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being so much top-hampered by the stores 1824.. 

 received from the Snap, could carry but little August. 

 sail^ and made much lee way. 



On the forenoon of the 5th, the weather 

 broke^ although the wind continued strong 

 from the same quarter. We obtained sights^ 

 and before noon made the land indistinctly, 

 which we soon knew to be Cape Resolution, 

 of which Mr. Bushnan has given so accurate 

 a drawing in Captain Parry's book. It Avould 

 therefore appear, that although our reckoning 

 gave us N.w.b.N., we had only made a north 

 course, and had driven under the influence of 

 a strong lee current, quite out of the strait. 

 As the flood was making, we stood on for 

 Cape Resolution until four P.M., when the 

 tide having turned, we stood with it for the 

 centre of the strait. vSeveral bergs were in 

 sight to the northward, but no other ice of any 

 consequence. ^The air had now become very 

 cold, and the thermometer seldom rose above 

 the freezing point ; up to this period we had, in 

 fact, experienced more severe and unpleasant 

 weather, than during our passage out on the 

 last voyage. The wind came roimd from the 

 westward, and with thick rain had freshened 

 considerably by sunset ; but we sailed so very 

 badly that there were little hopes of our 



