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J11I7. the fLlps under command, and not rilk parting com- 

 pany. Soon after two fmall pieces of ice not above three 

 feet fquare paffed us, which we fuppofed to have floated 

 from the fliore. It was not long before we faw fomething 

 on the bow, part black and part covered with fnow, 

 which from the appearance we took to be iflands, and 

 thought that we had not flood far enough out; I hauled 

 up immediately to the N N W and was foon undeceived, 

 finding it to be ice which we could not clear upon that 

 tack ; we tacked immediately, but the wind and fea 

 both fetting diredly upon it, we neared it very faft, and 

 were within little more than a cable's length of the ice, 

 whilft in (lays. The wind blowing frefli, the fhips would 

 have been in danger on the lee ice, had not the officers 

 and men been very alert in working the fliip. The ice, 

 as far as we could then fee, lay nearly Eb N and WbS» 

 At half paft feven in the evening, the fhip running en- 

 tirely to the Southward, and the weather clearing a little, 

 I tacked, and ftood for the ice. "When I faw it, I bore 

 down to make it plain ; at ten the ice lay from N W 

 to Eafl, and no opening. Very foggy, and httle wind, 

 all day ; but not cold. At eleven came on a thick fog. 

 At half paft midnight, heard the furge of the ice, and 

 hauled the wind to the Eaflward. 



6th. Clear v/eather all day, and the wind Eaflerly off 

 the ice. In the morning I ftood in to make the land 

 plain. At fix, was within four miles of the ice, which 



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