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nth. At half paft four in the morning the longitude July. 

 by the lunar obfervation was (f 42' E. And at the fame 

 time by my watch 9° 2 E. Cloven Cliff S S E, diftant 

 eight miles. This would make the longitude of Cloven 

 Cliff 9° 38' E ; which is within twenty minutes of what 

 it was determined by the obfervations and furvey taken in 

 Fair Haven. At noon the latitude obferved was 80° 4 ; 

 Vogel Sang W S W. Little wind and a great fweil in the 

 morning. Calm moft part of the day. 



1 2th. Calm all day, with a great fwell from the S\V, 

 and the weather remarkably mild. At eight in the 

 evening longitude by the watch 10° 54^30'''' E: Cloven , 

 Cliff S W b S. The Carcafs drove with the current fo 

 near the main body of the ice, as to be obliged to anchor; 

 fhe came to in twenty-fix fathom water. 



1 3th. Calm till noon, the fhip driving to the Weft- 

 ward with the current, which we obferved to be very irre- 

 gular, the Carcafs being driven at the fame time to the 

 Eaftward. Near the main body of the ice, the detached 

 pieces probably affedt the currents, and occafion the 

 great irregularity which we remarked. We had found 

 an heavy fwell from the S W thefe two days. At two in 

 the afternoon it came on very fuddenly to blow frefh from 

 that quarter, with foggy weather : we worked into Vogel 



G 2 Sang, 



