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near two leagues deep, had flattered us with hopes of July. 

 getthig to the Northward ; but thefe openings proved to ~ 



be no more than bays in the main body of the ice. 

 About one in the afternoon, we were by our reckoning 

 in about 80° 34', nearly in the fame place where we 

 had been on the 9th. About three we bore away for 

 what appeared like an opening to the S W ; we found 

 the ice run far to the Southward. 



2 1 ft. We ftill continued to run along the edge of the 

 ice, which trended to the Southward. At noon we were 

 in the latitude of 79° 26', by obfervation, which was 

 twenty-five miles to the Southward of our reckoning. 

 Finding that the dirc£tion of the ice led us to the South- 

 ward, and that the current fet the fame way, I ftood to 

 the Northward and Weftward clofe along the ice,, to try 

 whether the fea was opened to the Northward by the 

 wind from that quarter. At nine in the evening we had 

 no ground with 200 fathom of Hne. At ten we got into 

 a ftreani of loofe ice. The weather fine, but cool all day, 

 and fometimes foggy. 



2 2d. At two in the morning we bore away to the N E, 



*for the main body of the ice ; the weather became foggy 



foon afterwards. At fix we faw the ice ; and the weather 



being ftill foggy, we hauled up to the S S E, to avoid 



being embayed in it. The air very cold. 



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