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declared that it appeared to them impra£ticable to proceed 

 that way, and that it was probable we ihould foon be 

 befet where we were, and detained there. The ice fet fo 

 faft down, that before they got on board the Carcafs we 

 were faft. Captain Lutwidge hoifted our boat up, to 

 prevent her being ftove. We were obliged to heave the 

 ihip through for two hours, with ice anchors, from each 

 quarter; nor were we quite out of the ice till midnight. 

 This is about the place where moft of the old difcoverers 

 were flopped. The people in both {hips being much fa- 

 tigued, and the Carcafs not able to keep up with 

 us, without carrying ftudding-fails, I fhortened fail as foon 

 as we were quite out, and left orders to ftand to the 

 Northward under an eafy fail: I intended, having failed 

 in this attempt, to range along the ice to the N W, in 

 hopes of an opening that way, the wind being fair, and 

 the weather clear ; refolving, if I found it all folid, to 

 return to the Eaftward, where probably it might by that 

 time be broken up, which the very mild weather encou- 

 raged me to exped. 



8th. Little wind in the morning, and a fwell fetting 

 on the ice, we were obliged to get the boats a-head, to 

 tow the fhip clear -, which they effeded with difficulty. 

 A breeze fpringing up when we were within two cables 

 lengths of the main body of the ice, flood in for the 

 land, and tacked at two, to fland to the N W for the ice ; 

 but the weather coming thick between five and fix, I 



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