^8 JOURNAL. 



July. between the land and the ice, that I fhould at Icafl: b« 

 able to afceitain where they joined, and perhaps to dif- 

 cover from the land, whether there was any profped of a 

 paffage that way : At that time the ice was all foHd as far 

 as we could fee, without the leaft appearance of water to 

 the Northward. 



19th. At fix In the morning we had got to the Eafl- 

 ward among the loofe ice which lay ^"ery thick in (hore, 

 the main body to the Northward and Eaftward ; the 

 land near Deer Field not four miles off, and the water 

 jfhoaled to twenty fathoms. Here we found ourfelves 

 nearly in the fame place where we had twice been flopped, 

 the ice fituated as before, locked with the land, without 

 any paffage either to the Eafl.ward or Northward : I theres 

 fore flood back to the Weflward. At noon the Northern- 

 mofl part of Vogel Sang bore SWbS, diflant about 

 feven leagues. The weather being very fine, and the 

 wind to the Eaflward, we were enabled to coafl along the 

 ice to the Weflward, hauling into all the bays, going 

 round every point of ice in fearch of an opening, and 

 ftanding clofe along by the main body all day, generally 

 within a fhip's length. 



20th. At half after three in the morning the land was out 

 of fight, and we imngined ourfelves in rather more than 

 eighty degrees and an half j fome of the openings being 



near 



