-, JOURNAL. 



Jul)^ *^^ canying the Ship to the N W from the Ifland, which 

 "" " before carried us to the S E fat the rate of a mile an 



^ hour) towards it. On the Weft fide is a fine white 

 " fandy bottom, from two fathoms, at a fliip's length 

 " from the beach, to five fathoms, at half a mile's 

 " diftance off." 



The foundings all about this ifland, and to the 

 -£aftward, feem to partake of the nature of the coaft. 

 To the Weftward the rocks were high, and the fliores 

 bold and fteep to ; here the land flielved more, and the 

 foundings were flioal, from thirty to ten fathom. It ap- 

 pears extraordinary that none of the old navigators, who 

 are fo accurate and minute in their defcriptions of the 

 coaft, have taken any notice of this ifland, fo remarkable 

 and different from every thing they hadfeen on the Weftem 

 coaft; unlefswe fliould fuppofe that it did not then exift, 

 and that the ftreams from the great ocean up the Weft 

 fide of Spitfbergen, and through the Waygat's Straits, 

 meeting here, have raifed this bank, and occafioned the 

 quantity of ice that generally blocks up the coaft here- 

 abouts. — At four in the afternoon, hoifted out the boat, 

 and tried the current, which fet NEbE, at the rate of 

 three quarters of a mile an hour. At midnight, Moffen 

 Ifland bore from S E b S to S b W, diftant about five 

 miles. 



26th. About two in the morning, we had little 

 wind, with fog; made the fignals to the Carcafs for 



keeping 



