LAND ON SOUTFIAMPTON ISLAND. 49 



ceive that these observations, with many 1S24. 

 others equally interesting, will be better seen August. 

 by being arranged in a separate table, I have 

 placed them in the Appendix. 



A thick fog with a high wind continued all 

 the night, which was very dark, and although 

 the wind remained unchanged, it Avas not until 

 noon of the 23d that the weather cleared. 



During this time we had made a few miles 

 south-westing, and passed some heavier ice than 

 we had yet seen, many of the floes being two or 

 three miles in circumference. We had sound- 

 ings in the night in fifty fathoms, and at day- 

 light of the 24th, thirty fathoms, at which time 

 we found ourselves off a heavy pack of ice, 

 which lay against a yellow shoal beach at about 

 four miles distant. Some sea-horses being on 

 the ice our boats killed a couple of them, and 

 having stood along the coast with a light air, I 

 landed at ten A.M., with Mr. Kendall, for the 

 purpose of obtaining observations. As we ap- 

 proached the shore we had ten fathoms at one 

 mile and a-half, at half a mile four fathoms, 

 and at a quarter of a mile two fathoms, rocky 

 bottom, on which heavy masses of ice lay 

 grounded. We observed on landing that the 

 tide had fallen about four inches, and that the 

 ice with the chb, was coming from the north- 



