12 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 
The comparisons of the chronometers this day 
indicated that Arnold’s Nos. 2148 and 2]47 , had 
slightly changed their rates since they had been 
brought on board ; fortunately the rate of the for- 
mer seems to have increased nearly in the same 
ratio as the other has lost, and the mean longi- 
tude will not be materially affected. 
Being now fairly launched into the Atlantic, I 
issued a general memorandum for the guidance 
of the officers, during the prosecution of the ser- 
vice on which we were engaged, and communi- 
cated to them the several points of information 
that were expected from us by my instructions, 
T also furnished them with copies of the signals 
which had been agreed upon between Lieutenant 
Parry and myself, to be used in the event of our 
reaching the northern coast of America, and fall- 
ing in with each other. ; 
At the end of the month of June, our progress 
was found to have been extremely slow, owing to 
a determined N.W. wind and much sea, We had 
numerous birds hovering round the ship; princi- 
pally fulmars ¢ procellaria glacialis,) and shear- 
waters, (procellaria puffinus, ) and not unfrequently 
saw shoals of grampusses sporting about, which 
the Greenland seamen term finners from their 
large dorsal fin. Some porpoises occasionally 
appeared, and whenever they did, the crew were 
