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yards eleven inches at the other. At four in the after- July. 

 noon the variation was -12° 24' W : at the fame time the 

 longitude 19° o' 15" E ; by which we found that we had 

 hardly moved to the Eaftward fince the day before. 

 Calm moft part of the day ; the weather very fine; the ice 

 clofed faft, and was all round the fhips ; no opening to 

 be feen any where, except an hole of about a mile and a 

 half, where the fl:iips lay faft to the ice with ice-anchors. 

 We completed the water. The fhip's company were 

 playing on the ice all day. The pilots being much farther 

 than they had ever been, and the feafon advancing, feemed 

 alarmed at being bcfet. 



Auguft 1 ft. The ice prefled in faft ; there was not Auguft. 

 now the fmalleft opening; the two ftiips were within lefs 

 than two lengths oi each other, feparated by ice, and 

 neither having room to turn. The ice, which had been 

 all flat the day before, and almoft level with the water's 

 edge, was now in many places forced higher than the 

 main yard, by the pieces fqueezing together. Our lati- 

 tude this day at noon, by the double altitude, was 

 80 } 

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2d. Thick foggy wet v/eather, blowing frefh to the 

 Weftward ; the ice immediately about the ftiips rather 

 loofer than the day before, but yet hourly fetting in fo 

 faft upon us, that there feemed to be no probability of 

 getting the (hips out again, without a ftrong Eaft, or. 



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