NO. 



17.] 



OBSERVATIONS. 



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' The floe cracked along the starbord side of the ship, and also on the port side at a distance of ahout 14 

 paces from the ship. - 11 a. m. ^p. ^ p. m. Varying between =° and =. ^ now and then. * Pushed the 

 ship out of the floe and moored her to a larger one. ^ Between 10 a. m. and noon, moved the thermometer- 

 screen over to the new floe athwart the fore-chains. 



