32 m THE ICE. 



1824. Hudson's Bay ; for it is well known that 

 August, neither oaks nor other trees grow in Hudson's 

 Strait, or come as high as Chesterfield Inlet * . 

 In the afternoon we had soundings in one 

 hundred fathoms. Rain and fog continued 

 until the forenoon of the 10th, when a breeze 

 which sprung up from the north-west, directly 

 against us, cleared the sky sufficiently to shew 

 the Upper Savage Island, on u^hich we had 

 landed last voyage, bearing N.b.w., with the 

 North Bluff N.w.b.N., distant ten and fifteen 

 miles. Having found a heavier piece of ice 

 than that to which we were fast, wc warped to 

 it, and our people v/ere enabled to wash their 

 clothes in its numerous pools, and amuse 

 themselves on it for the day. In driving with 

 the north-west wind we experienced consider- 

 able anxiety by being repeatedly swept past 

 bergs, and frequently almost upon them. 

 These dangerous bodies were extremely nu- 



* Subsequent to writing this part of my journal, I 

 have searched in the accounts of various voyages to 

 Hudson's Bay, and have reason to believe that the only 

 ice which escapes from it, is that lying in its northern or 

 broadest part ; and that the winter's formation in the 

 bottom of the bay is thawed where it lies. This would 

 lead me to suppose that the floe in question must have 

 come from some other situation, and affords a subject of 

 interesting inquiry as to its original site. 



