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 approached as a rocky lee fhore. To the Eaftward on the July 

 contrary it would make fmooth water, and detach all the 

 loofe ice from the edges ; perhaps break a ftream open, and 

 give us a fair trial to the Northward ; at all events, with an 

 Eafterly wind we could run out again, if we did not find 

 it pradlicable to proceed. Finding the ice fo fail to the 

 Northward and Weftward, it became a defirable objeft to 

 afcertain how far it was poflible to get to the Eaftward, 

 and by that means purfue the voyage to the Northward. 

 Thefe confiderations determined me to ply to the Eaft- 

 ward, and make another pufh to get through where I had 

 been three times repulfed. In working to the Eaftward, 

 we kept as near the body of the ice as poftible. At noon 

 the Cloven ClijfFbore SWbS about feven leagues. At fix 

 we were working to the N E, and at nine we fteered to the 

 S E, the ice appearing more open that way : we had frefii 

 gales and cloudy weather. The ftiip ftruck very hard in 

 endeavouring to force through the loofe ice. At midnight 

 the wind frefhened, and we double reefed the topfails. 

 It was probably owing to the frefh gales this day, as well 

 as to the fummer being more advanced, that we were 

 enabled to get farther than in any of our former attempts 

 this way. We continued coafting the ice, and at two in 

 the morning the north part of Vogel Sang and Hacluyt's 

 Head Land in one bore 865° W; Cloven Cliff S 52"' 

 W ; the neareft part of the fhore about three leagues off.' 

 When I left the deck, at four in the morning, we were 

 very near the fpot where the fliips had been faft in the ice 



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