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temperature of the water at that depth to be 33° ; that of June 

 the water at the furface was at the fame time 40°, and in 

 the air 44° |. Fahrenheit's thermometer p:Unged in water 

 brought up from the fame depth, flood at 38°!. This 

 evening the m after of a Greenland Ship came on board, 

 who told me, that he was juft come out of the ice which 

 lay to the Weftward about fixteen leagues off, and that 

 three fhips had been loft this year, two Englifti, and one 

 Dutch. The weather fine, and rather warm. At fix in 

 the evening the longitude by my watch was 9° 28' 

 45" E. 



July I ft. Little wind Northerly, or calm, all day : the J^^Y- 

 weather very fine, and fo warm that we fat without a 

 fire, and with one of the ports open in the cabin. At 

 noon the latitude obferved was 78° 13' 36"; Black Point 

 bearing S 78° E ; which makes the latitude of that point 

 nearly the fame as that of the ftiip, and agrees very well 

 with the chart of this coaft in Purchas. 



2d. Little wind, and calms, all day ; the weather very 

 fine. At fix in the morning five fail of Greenlandmen in 

 fight. At noon the latitude obferved was 78° 22' 41". 

 I took a furvey of the coaft, as far as we could fee : I 

 took alfo with the mecrameter the altitudes of feveral of 

 the mountains : but as there is nothing particularly in- 

 terefting to navigators in this part of the coaft, I fliall 

 only mention the height of one mountain, which was 



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