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keeping company. At half an hour after three in the J"^y- 

 afternoon, we were in longitude 12° 20' 45" E ; variation, *" 

 by the mean of five azimuths, 12° 47' W. At nine we 

 (aw land to the Eaftward ; fleering to the Northward 

 with little wind, and no ice in fight, except what we . 

 had pafled* 



27th. Working ftill to the NE, we met with fome 

 loofe ice ; however from the opennefs of the fea hitherto, 

 fince we had pafl'ed Deer Field, I had great hopes of 

 getting far to the Northward ; but about noon, being in 

 the latitude of eighty and forty-eight, by our reckoning, 

 we were flopped by the main body of the ice, which we 

 found lying in a line, nearly Eaft and Weft, quite folid. 

 Having: tacked, I brought to, and founded clofe to 

 the edge of the ice, in 79 fathom, muddy bottom. 



The wind being ftill Eafterly, I worked up clofe to 

 the edge of the . ice, coalling it all the way. At fix in 

 the evening we were in longitude 14° 59' 30" E, by ob- 

 fervation, . 



28th. At midnight the latitude obferved was 80" 37'. 

 The main body of the ice ftill lying in the fame diredion, 

 we continued working to the Eaftward, and found feveral 

 openings to the Northward, of two or three miles deepj 

 into every one of which we ran, forcing the fhip, 

 wherever we could, by a prefs of fail, amongft the loofe ice 



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