JOURNAL. „3 



20th. At midnight, being exadly in the latitude of Aupuft. 

 Cloven Cliff, Mr. Harvey took an obfervation for the re- ' — " — ~ 

 fradlion; which we found to agree with the tables. The 

 wind Southerly all day, blowing frefh in the afternoon. 

 About noon fell in with a ftream of loofe ice, and about 

 four made the main ice near us. We flood to the 

 W N W along it at night, and found it in the fame 

 fituation as when we faw it before ; the wind frefhened 

 and the weather grew thick, fo that we loll fight of it, 

 and could not venture to Hand nearer, the wind being 

 S S W. 



2 I ft. At two in the morning we were clofe in with the 

 body of the Weft ice, and obliged to tack for it; blowing 

 frefli, with a very heavy fea Irom the Southward. The 

 wind abated in the afternoon, but the fwell continued, 

 with a thick fog. 



2 2d. The wind fprung up Northerly, with a thick 

 fog; about noon moderate and clearer; but coming on to 

 blow frefli again in the evening, with a great fea, and 

 thick fog, I was forced to haul more to the Eaftward, 

 left we ftiould be embayed, or run upon lee ice. 



The fealon was fo very far advanced, and fogs as well 

 as gales of wind lo much to be expecfted, that nothing 

 more could now have been done, had any thing been left 

 untried. The fummer appears to have been uncommonly 



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