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July. fifteen hundred and three yards. This may ferve to give 

 ~^ ' fome idea of the appearance and fcale of the coaft. At 



half paft fix the longitude by the watch was 9° 8' 30" E : 



Variation 14.° 55' W, 



3d. Latitude at midnight 78° 23' 46": Dip 80° 45'. 

 The weather fine, and the wind fair all day. Running 

 along by the coaft of Spitfbergen all day : feveral Green- 

 landmen in fight. Between nine and ten in the evening 

 we were abreaft of the North Foreland, bearing E b S | S, 

 diftance i I mile. Sounded in twenty fathom ; rocky 

 ground. 



4th. Very little wind in the morning. At noon the 

 latitude by obfervation was 79° 31'. Magdalena Hook 

 bore N 39° E diftant about four miles; which gives the 

 latitude of that place 79° 34'; the fame as Fotherby ob- 

 ferved it to be in 161 4. Stood in to a fmall bay to the 

 Southward of Magdalena and Hamburgher's Bay: anchored 

 with the ftream anchor, and fent the boat for water. About 

 three in the afternoon, when the boat was fent on 

 fhore, it appeared to be high water, and ebbed about three 

 feet. This makes high water full and change at half 

 an hour paft one, or with a S S W moon ; which agrees 

 exadlly with Baffin's obfervation in 1 6 1 3 . The flood comes 

 from the Southward. Went aftiore with the aftrono- 

 mer, and inftruments, to obferve the variation. A thick 

 fog came on before we had completed the obfervations. 



The 



