14 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 
Straits than he had ever recollected, and that it 
lay particularly close to the westward, being 
connected with the shore to the northward of 
Resolution Island, and extending from thence 
within a short distance of the Greenland coast ; 
that whales had been abundant, but the ice so ex- 
tremely cross, that few could be killed. His ship, 
as well as several others, had suffered material 
injury, and two vessels had been entirely crushed 
between vast masses of ice in latitude 74° 40’ N., 
but the crews were saved. We inquired anxiously, 
but in vain, for intelligence respecting Lieute- 
nant Parry, and the ships under his command : 
but as he mentioned that the wind had been 
blowing strong from the northward for some 
time, which would, probably, have cleared Baf. 
fin’s Bay of ice, we were disposed to hope fa- 
vourably of his progress. 
The clouds assumed so much the appearance 
of icebergs this evening, as to deceive most of 
the passengers and crew ; but their imaginations 
had been excited by the intelligence we had re- 
ceived from the Andrew Marvell, that she had 
only parted from a cluster of them tw. days pre- 
vious to our meeting. = , 
On the 27th, being in latitude 57° 44’ 21” N., 
longitude 47° 31’ 14” W., and the weather calm, 
we tried for soundings, but did not reach the’ 
